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"Were flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. Weve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question."
Grace HopperIts easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. — Grace Hopper
"Its easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
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Often misattributed to Grace Hopper. Authenticity is disputed.
Grace Hopper
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Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. She was also one of
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