KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Ellen Ullman Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

Showing 1-10 of 100 Quotes by Ellen Ullman

I hate the new word processors that want to tell you, as you're typing, that you made a mistake. I have to turn off all that crap. It's like, shut up - I'm thinking now. I will worry about that sort of error later. I'm a human being. I can still read this, even though it's wrong. You stupid machine, the fact that you can't is irrelevant to me.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: About Being Crap Error Even Fact Hate Human Human Being Irrelevant Later Like Machine Made Me Mistake New Now Off Read Shut Shut Up Sort Still Stupid Tell Thinking Though Turn Typing Up Want Will Word Worry Wrong You I Can

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Algorithm Art Code Craft Design Programming

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Always Been Computer Maverick Occupation Programming Self-Taught

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went from being feared as Big Brother surrogates to being thought of as metaphors for liberty and individual freedom.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: About Being Big Big Brother Biggest Biggest Problem Brother Computer Critical Feared Freedom Individual Individual Freedom Liberty Lives Machines Metaphors People Problem Role Stopped Thought

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Clock Could Fixing Further Imagine Like Logical Nothing People Process Programming Truth

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Genetics is where we come from. It's deeply natural to want to know.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Come Deeply Genetics Know Natural Want Where

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I hate to see capable, smart people out of work - young or old.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Capable Hate Old Out People See Smart Smart People Work Young

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Each new tool we create ends an old relationship with the world and starts a new one. And we're changed by that relationship, inevitably. It changes the way we live, changes our patterns, changes our social organization.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Changed Changes Create Each Ends Inevitably Live New New One Old Organization Our Patterns Relationship Social Starts Tool Way World

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you're giving up - look over your shoulder and look at what falls away.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Advance Away Every Falls Giving Giving Up Know Look Over Shoulder Up You Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: About Computer Computers Lives Our People Programmers Simply Talk True Whole

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Professions

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Ellen Ullman on Amazon

Related Authors

Whoops! Looks like Ellen Ullman has no related authors

Popular Authors

John Dewey Kevin Gates Napoleon Hill P. J. O'Rourke Pablo Picasso Travis Scott Mike Tyson H. G. Wells

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1588 - Thomas Hobbes

1856 - Booker T. Washington

1937 - Colin Powell

1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller

1827 - Joseph Lister

1834 - Frank Richard Stockton

1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne

1883 - Walter Huston

1900 - Spencer Tracy

1901 - Melvyn Douglas

Birthdays on April 5th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Birthday Future Gardening Intelligence Legal Life Patriotism Technology