Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper, née Grace Brewster Murray, was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944, invented the first compiler for a computer programming language, and was one of those who popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 December 1906
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
It is easier to apologize than to get permission.
If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.
I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?
The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission