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Some people hit a profession and just keep going deeper into it, making a life and making it more and more stable. That's not been my experience. I always want to try something new.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Always Been Deeper Experience Going Hit Just Keep Keep Going Life Making More More And More New People Profession Some Some People Something Something New Stable Try Want

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With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: About Code Conversation Does Express Hard Means Really Very Writing

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I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Ancient Deeply General How Know Really Storytelling Things Think I Think

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It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I'm not sure they'd give their money to a bank or get on an airplane ever again.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Again Airplane Bank Ever Get Give Got How Knew Me Money Occurred People Really Software Sure Written

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The computer's there to serve the human being, not vice versa.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Being Computer Human Human Being Serve Versa Vice Vice Versa

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We don't have to live up to our computer.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Computer Live Our Up

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It is deep in our nature to make tools.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Deep Make Nature Our Tools

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Our relationship to the computer is much like our relationship to the car: rich, complex, socially messy.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Car Complex Computer Like Messy Much Our Relationship Rich Socially

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Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us: except for the realm of insects, the whole history of life on earth is inscribed within our bodies.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Before Bodies Came Create Dismissed Earth Everything Evolution Except Fit History Insects Life Our Programmer Realm Seen Sloppy Us Whole Wild Within

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The web is just another stunning point in the two-hundred-thousand-year history of human beings on earth. The taming of fire; the discovery of penicillin; the publication of 'Jane Eyre' - add anything you like.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Add Another Anything Beings Discovery Earth Fire History Human Human Beings Jane Just Like Penicillin Point Publication Stunning Web You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Professions

Born: Unknown

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