“Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.”

—  Grace Hopper

On demonstrating a billionth of a second of electricity travel with a piece of wire, in an interview on 60 Minutes (24 August 1986)
Context: 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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