We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the … - Ellen Ullman
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the …
- Ellen Ullman
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with f… - Ellen Ullman
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accomodations with f…
The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussin… - Ellen Ullman
The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussin…
Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse - Ellen Ullman
Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer. - Ellen Ullman
The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here … - Ellen Ullman
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance. It is here …
But you can't stop knowing something, can you? - Ellen Ullman
But you can't stop knowing something, can you?
We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins - Ellen Ullman
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