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COBOL-- one of her smaller achievements. I had the privilege of meeting her once after a lecture. We oughta put her face on a coin.

They did the next best thing. She's buried at Arlington, per her request.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

-- Admiral Grace Hopper

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[MindBender26]

Awchie!!! Long time no FReep.

Grace Hopper was the best oifficer-level computer and science recruiter the Navy ever had. Covered her speech at Texas A&M once. It was great.

During speech, she held up a piece of wire. Think it was about a foot long. Said that was the distance electricity traveled in one nanosecond, so if you wasted a nanosecond in your life or your computer, that was how much you were wasting.

At end of talk, she gave those foot long wires out as memory of speech.