Grace Hopper quotes - page 2

The Group started out by trying to design a language for stating procedures, but soon discovered that what was really required was a description of the data and a statement of the relationships between the data sets. (Grace Hopper)
These priorities are not fixed and are indicated in many cases by the data. Thus we must have a language and a structure that will take care of the data descriptions and priorities, as well as the operations we wish to perform. View quote
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We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question. View quote
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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." View quote
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