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

— Grace Hopper

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

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

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."

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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