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Quotes from Management and the Computer of the Future — Grace Hopper

1906–1992 United States

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We must state relationships, not procedures.

Management and the Computer of the Future (1962)

We must include in any language with which we hope to describe complex data-processing situations the capability for describing data.

Management and the Computer of the Future (1962)

The Group started out by trying to design a language for stating procedures, but soon discovered that what was really required was a description of the data and a statement of the relationships between the data sets.

Management and the Computer of the Future (1962)

These priorities are not fixed and are indicated in many cases by the data.
Thus we must have a language and a structure that will take care of the data descriptions and priorities, as well as the operations we wish to perform.

Management and the Computer of the Future (1962)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Grace Hopper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.