“People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole l...” — Ellen Ullman Quote

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

Writing is a very isolating occupation.

There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences.

I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from under yourself with a single command.

After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as well?

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

I got my first computer when I was 6, and I was part of that early generation of children who grew up with computers always being around. I fell in love with them early on.