Grace Hopper: Computer

Grace Hopper was American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. Explore interesting quotes on computer.
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“A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.”

Grace Hopper

The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)
Context: 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.

Intelligence , Question , Knowledge , Forgetting

“At present, we're putting on paper a lot of stuff that never needed to be on paper. We do need to keep the records. But there isn't any reason for printing them. The next generation growing up with the computers will change that.”

Grace Hopper

As quoted in the U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986) http://web.archive.org/web/20090114165606/http://www.chips.navy.mil/archives/86_jul/interview.html

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

Grace Hopper

On the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from the Harvard Mark II experimental computer at Harvard in 1947, as quoted in Time (16 April 1984). Note that the term "bug" was in use by people in several technical disciplines long before that; Thomas Edison used the term, and it was common AT&T parlance in the 1920s to refer to bugs in the wires. Hopper is credited with popularizing the term's use in the computing field.

“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

As quoted in Grace Hopper : Navy Admiral and Computer Pioneer (1989) by Charlene W. Billings, p. 74 ISBN 089490194X

“[The Computer] was the first machine man built that assisted the power of his brain instead of the strength of his arm.”

Grace Hopper

As spoken at Space Coast 1987 speaking about the Harvard Mark I computer. The Computer was originally She in reference to the Mark I.