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A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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?"
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?"
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.... (more Grace Hopper quotes)
| Grace Hopper: Admiral Of The Cyber Sea (Library of Naval Biography) by Kathleen Broome Williams | |
| Grace Hopper: The First Woman to Program the First Computer in the United States (Women Hall of Famers in Mathematics and Science) by Christy Marx | |
| Grace Hopper: Computer Whiz (Famous Inventors) by Patricia J. Murphy |