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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.

— Grace Hopper The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)

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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.

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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."

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

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