WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:23:42 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Hopper, Grace – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Hopper, Grace -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/hopper-grace/1950/ https://wist.info/hopper-grace/1950/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1950 Go ahead and do it, it is easier to apologize than to get permission.


Grace Hopper (1906-1992) American admiral, computer scientist, educator
(Attributed) ]]> https://wist.info/hopper-grace/1950/feed/ 0 1950 Hopper, Grace -- Speech (1981) https://wist.info/hopper-grace/12000/ https://wist.info/hopper-grace/12000/#respond Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:28:10 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=12000 From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.


Grace Hopper (1906-1992) American admiral, computer scientist, educator
Speech (1981)

On the removal of a large moth from the Harvard Mark I experimental computer (9 Sep 1947).  There are, however, earlier examples of the term "bug" for mechanical glitches and computer problems.

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