Grace Hopper

1906–1992 · U.S. Navy Rear Admiral & computer-science pioneer

Grace Murray Hopper was an American mathematician and U.S. Navy officer who helped build the earliest computers and championed machine-independent programming, work that led to COBOL. A relentless advocate for questioning inherited habits, she gave countless talks warning organizations against complacency — making this line squarely consistent with her documented views.

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“The most dangerous phrase in the language is, we've always done it this way”

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