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“We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins”
-- Ellen Ullman

#Cities #Way #Ruins
“Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse”
-- Ellen Ullman

#Engineering #Software #Software Engineering
“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 fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.”
-- Ellen Ullman

#Lying #Ignorance #Sea
“But you can't stop knowing something, can you?”
-- Ellen Ullman

#Knowing
“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 that the stereotype of the programmer, sitting in a dim room, growling from behind Coke cans, has its origins. The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-It notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought. The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.”
-- Ellen Ullman

#Yellow #Needs #Machines
“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 social sciences and humanities.”
-- Ellen Ullman

#Engineering #People #Humanity
“The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.”
-- Ellen Ullman

#Program #Messiness

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