Ellen Ullman Quotes

#1. Dedicated to anyone who is trying to figure out where they are supposed to be. Don't worry, friends, the universe has a plan for you; you just need to listen to what it's trying to tell you and you'll eventually end up exactly where you were always meant to be.

Jay Crownover

#2. The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

William Ralph Inge

#3. Education, from Addams' perspective, must not merely make us more adept at defending ourselves against those with different agendas. Education should increase our powers of empathy and our ability to act in concert with others.

Michael S. Roth

#4. But you can't stop knowing something, can you?

Ellen Ullman

#5. Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.

John Steinbeck

#6. Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man's breadth, with his heart.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#7. Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse

Ellen Ullman

#8. I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

Gary Cherone

#9. Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

Greg Child

#10. 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.

Ellen Ullman

#11. 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.

Ellen Ullman

#12. 18 Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. 19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool?

Anonymous

#13. The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by ... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

Albert Sabin

#14. Satisfaction in life doesn't jump on you, you work for it, you earn it. You will not sit in a place, fold your hands and expect to be satisfied with life.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#15. We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

Ellen Ullman

#16. I write to feel alone.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#17. 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.

Ellen Ullman

#18. The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.

Sam Harris

#19. Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this implies?

Ellen Ullman

#20. If you need to find out who is your friend
among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.

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