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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.

— Grace Hopper Grace Hopper : Navy Admiral and Computer Pioneer (1989)

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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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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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