Ellen Ullman best Computers Quotes – “Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.”
Ellen Ullman best Computers Quotes – “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 best Computers Quotes – “People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That’s simply not true.”
Ellen Ullman best Computers Quotes – “Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early ’80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces.”
Ellen Ullman best Computers Quotes – “I don’t know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like all human-created ‘progress,’ computers are problematic, giving and taking away.”
Ellen Ullman best Failure Quotes – “To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There’s no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.”
Ellen Ullman best Art Quotes – “Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.”
Ellen Ullman best Anger Quotes – “Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.”