Art Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. Ellen Ullman 1
Anger Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity. Ellen Ullman 0
Productivity Productivity has always been the justification for the prepackaging of programming knowledge. But it is worth asking about the sort of productivity... Ellen Ullman 0
Computers Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only... Ellen Ullman 0
Computers People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true. Ellen Ullman 0
Computers 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... Ellen Ullman 0
Computers 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... Ellen Ullman 0
Computers Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a... Ellen Ullman 0