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"Were flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. Weve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question."
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Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of
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"To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge."
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"This saying has been in print already 1957, in Gerald Kershs "Fowlers End", p. 23."
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"Its easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
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"Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems."
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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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