Top 7 Ellen Ullman Quotes
#1. But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?
Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed.
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#2. Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this implies?
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#3. To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.
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#4. We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins
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#5. I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.
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#6. Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse
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#7. But you can't stop knowing something, can you?
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