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I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.
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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!
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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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I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. … they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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When a farmer needs more ox power to plow his field, he doesn't get a bigger ox, he gets another one. Then he puts the oxen in parallel.
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Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
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Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic — you run against people who can't change their minds.
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We must include in any language with which we hope to describe complex data-processing situations the capability for describing data.
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At present, we're putting on paper a lot of stuff that never needed to be on paper. We do need to keep the records. But there isn't any reason for printing them. The next generation growing up with the computers will change that.
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We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.
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In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."
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You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.
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There's something you learn in your first boot-camp, or training camp: If they put you down somewhere with nothing to do, go to sleep — you don't know when you'll get any more.
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It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
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I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?"
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I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.
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Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Edward Dahlberg
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Born:
December 9, 1906
Died:
January 1, 1992
(aged 85)
Bio:
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral.
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