“The most dangerous phrase in the language is: We've always done it this way.”
Why Grace is the canonical The Educator
A US Navy rear admiral and computing pioneer, Hopper invented the first compiler and championed the machine-independent languages that led to COBOL. A relentless teacher and public speaker, she is the founding educator-technologist of the computer age.
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