Quote #7

At the end of about a week, I called back and said, 'I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?'

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More from Grace Hopper

  1. In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, 'Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.'
  2. Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
  3. I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'
  4. I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. [:] they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do progr…
  5. It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
  6. I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.
  7. A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things.
  8. The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

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