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“There are so few true villains, just other screwed-up people who pass the damage on.”
― Dead Ice
― Dead Ice
“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.”
― Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea
― Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea
“There is no normal anymore,” he heard himself say. “You kind of…just keep going, because that’s all you got. The hardest thing is being with other people—it’s like they’re on a different wavelength, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what’s wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It’s a whole different language, and you’ve got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It’s really hard to relate.”
― Lover at Last
― Lover at Last
“You fear me, because you don't know what I am. I look like a woman, I sound like a man, and your reason tells you the sum total is impossible!”
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“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.”
― Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea
― Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea
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