Randi Harper

“Gildersleeve was directed to draw up the initial plans for a women’s naval force, although, as she expressed it later, “. . . if the Navy could possibly have used dogs or ducks or monkeys, certain of the older admirals would probably have greatly preferred them to women.”
― Kathleen Broome Williams, Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea

“There are so few true villains, just other screwed-up people who pass the damage on.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“She further claimed that she could make a computer do anything she could completely define. This announcement was met with great skepticism, but of course she was right.39 Hopper foresaw no end to the education of her computer. She told her colleagues that at present the UNIVAC had “a well grounded mathematical education fully equivalent to that of a college sophomore.” Moreover, the computer neither forgot nor made mistakes. It was making good progress in its undergraduate studies and was well on the way to graduation. “It is inevitable,” Hopper wrote, “that it will present itself as a candidate for a graduate degree.”
― Kathleen Broome Williams, Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea

“From then on, whenever Aiken put his head through the door and asked if they were making numbers, if they were not, they would tell him they were debugging the computer, a term and a procedure they may have been the first to institutionalize.”
― Kathleen Broome Williams, Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea