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You know, it's easier to look it up than to vote on the correct quote. <g>
So I went out there and found this in some very fascinating stuff about an
amazing lady. Of course, being oral tradition, even she may have said it
more than one way.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Hager [SMTP:hhager -at- dttus -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 8:21 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Grace Hopper (Was - impersonating a technical writer)
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> Yes, it is a quote from Grace Hopper. If I remember correctly, I
> heard
> her say it at one of her presentations Newport News, Virginia, more
> than a few years back. I even got one of her nanoseconds but lost it
> somewhere along the way. (Her nanosecond was a 11+ inch of wire
> indicating the distance an electron can tavel in one nanosecond. She
> was in the habit of giving these out when she gave a presentation.)
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