118 Quotes by Ellen Ullman

I hate to see capable, smart people out of work - young or old.

Genetics is where we come from. It's deeply natural to want to know.

UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.

Even simple fixes can bring the whole system down.

When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I'm supposed to be. Everything else is kind of anxiety.

I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

There is always one more bug to fix.

I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens.

If you've ever watched someone who is a mother talk on the phone, feed the dog, bounce the baby, it's just astounding to see someone manage, more or less well, to do all those things. But on a computer, multitasking is really binary. The task is either in the foreground, or it's not.