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I hate to see capable, smart people out of work - young or old.
Ellen Ullman
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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 problematic, giving and taking away.
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The questions I am often asked about my career tend to concentrate not on how one learns to code but how a woman does.
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I broke into the ranks of computing in the early 1980s, when women were just starting to poke their shoulder pads through crowds of men. There was no legal protection against 'hostile environments for women.'
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No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.
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I'm pretty bad at crying.
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I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and uncertain outcomes, keeps most from the task.
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Writing is a very isolating occupation.
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Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces.
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My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife.
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There is always one more bug to fix.
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Even simple fixes can bring the whole system down.
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