Human thinking can skip over a great deal,...... Quote by "Ellen Ullman"

Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the mind. But the machine has no corners. Despite all the attempts to see the computer as a brain, the machine has no foreground or background.
— Ellen Ullman

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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

Tags: doing, always, know, you

I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from under yourself with a single command.
— Ellen Ullman

Tags: single, yourself, age, you

I like the little semi-competencies of human beings, I realize. Governance, after all, is a messy business, a world of demi-solutions and compromise, where ideals are tarnished regularly.
— Ellen Ullman

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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

Tags: new, live, world, relationship

Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself that the work comes to you through trial and error and revision.
— Ellen Ullman

Tags: reading, yourself, you, work