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I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

— Grace Hopper

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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

We must state relationships, not procedures.

Management and the Computer of the Future (1962)

In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?"

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.

The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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