Ellen Ullman

I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the eyes of others, to be so enamored of one's present time that one cannot see that the world was once elsewise and was not about you. ”

I'm a dark thoughts writer. ”

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer. ”

I feel the best villains are the ones you have feelings for. ”

My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife. ”

I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens. ”

When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I'm supposed to be. Everything else is kind of anxiety. ”

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable. ”

Each new tool we create ends an old relationship with the world and starts a new one. And we're changed by that relationship, inevitably. It changes the way we live, changes our patterns, changes our social organization. ”

Our relationship to the computer is much like our relationship to the car: rich, complex, socially messy. ”