This is what makes them good engineers. Perfectionism: inci… - Ellen Ullman

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This is what makes them good engineers. Perfectionism: incinerating perfectionism.

Ellen Ullman

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Ellen Ullman is an American computer programmer and author. She has written novels as well as articles for various publications, including Harper's, Wired, the New York Times and Salon. Her essays and novels analyze the human side of the world of computer programming.

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Code and forget, code and forget: programming as a collective exercise in incremental forgetting.

We build our computers the way we build our cities — over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

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.

This is what makes them good engineers. Perfectionism: incinerating perfectionism. - Ellen Ullman

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