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Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that's extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about.

~Ellen Stofan

Topics: Able About Am Area Because Being Between Does Extremely Fun Get Go Instead Interesting Know Learn Links Look Me Nasa Nothing Play Projects Research Science See Smaller Trying I Am

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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

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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

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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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A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Abhor About Analyzing Assumptions Being Better Brings Computer Computers Deepest Defined Engage Error Machine Our Some Thinking Tool Which

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UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: After Always Being Doing Human Human Being Know Mere Operating Operating System System Unix You

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Through the miracle of natural genetic recombination, each child, with the sole exception of an identical twin, is conceived as a unique being. Even the atmosphere of the womb works its subtle changes, and by the time we emerge into the light, we are our own persons.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Atmosphere Being By The Time Changes Child Conceived Each Emerge Even Exception Genetic Identical Light Miracle Natural Our Own Persons Sole Subtle Through Time Twin Unique Womb Works

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I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the eyes of others, to be so enamored of one's present time that one cannot see that the world was once elsewise and was not about you.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Able About Being Cannot Enamored Example Experiences Eyes Focusing History Internet Lens Once Others Present Present Time See Think Through Time World You I Think

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My approach to being a self-taught programmer was to find out who was smart and who would be helpful, and these were - these are both men and women. And without learning from my co-workers, I never could've gone on in the profession as long as I did.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Approach Being Both Both Men And Women Co-Workers Did Find Gone Helpful Learning Long Men Men And Women Never Out Profession Programmer Self-Taught Smart Were Who Without Women Would

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What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Art Art Form Been Being Blues Businessmen Commercial Cultural Exploitation Far Form Grasp Itself Over Revolutionaries Rock Seem Taken

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