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Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good.
Quote by -Ellen Ullman
Programmers seem to be changing the world. It would be a relief, for them and for all of us, if they knew something about it.
Quote by -Ellen Ullman
'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person.
Quote by -Ellen Ullman
Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but of course nobody wanted to publish another story about a family, unless it was extraordinary. When I began writing about my life as a programmer, however, people were interested.
Quote by -Ellen Ullman
So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people: technology. Illness: technology. As if, somehow, technology in and of itself would be a solution. Yet machine values are not always human values.
Quote by -Ellen Ullman
There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences.
Quote by -Ellen Ullman
I don't like the idea that Facebook controls how people express themselves and changes it periodically according to whatever algorithms they use to figure out what they should do or the whim of some programmer or some CEO. That bothers me a great deal.
Quote by -Ellen Ullman
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination.
Quote by -Ellen Ullman
I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.
Quote by -Ellen Ullman
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.
Quote by -Ellen Ullman
Has Google appropriated the word 'search?' If so, I find it sad. Search is a deep human yearning, an ancient trope in the recorded history of human life.
Quote by -Ellen Ullman