Grace Hopper Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

  Grace Hopper

  Technology, Computer, Forget

  Quoted in the OCLC Newsletter, no.167, Mar/ Apr 1987.

• If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but . . .to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.

  Grace Hopper

  Jobs, Two, Oxen

• No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

  Grace Hopper

  People, Computer, Reasonable

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

  Grace Hopper

  Technology, Bugs, Computer

  Time, April 16, 1984.

• I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

  Grace Hopper

  Running, Computer, Arithmetic

  "Grace Hoppe: Navy Admiral and Computer Pioneer". Book by Charlene W Billings, p. 74, 1989.

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