"I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. ... they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs."
— Grace Hopper

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in Grace Hopper : Navy Admiral and Computer Pioneer (1989) by Charlene W. Billings, p. 74