“At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?"”

— Grace Hopper

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

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American computer scientist and United States Navy officer 1906–1992

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