I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. … they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.


As quoted in Grace Hopper : Navy Admiral and Computer Pioneer (1989) by Charlene W. Billings, p. 74 ISBN 089490194X

Grace Hopper Quotes

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. … they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. … they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. … they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. … they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.