Grace Hopper Quotes on Technology

6 quotes

  1. From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

  2. In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, 'Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.'

  3. 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?'

    #7 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
  4. Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

    #8 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
  5. I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. [:] they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.

  6. The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

    #11 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

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