Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper
Portrait of Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USN, 20 January 1984, photographed by James S. Davis.

There sat that beautiful big machine whose sole job was to copy things and do addition. Why not make the computer do it? That’s why I sat down and wrote the first compiler. It was very stupid. What I did was watch myself put together a program and make the computer do what I did.

-Grace Hopper

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