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
Grace Hopper quotes about
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.
If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!
I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.
If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.
At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can.
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.
It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.