Grace Hopper vs. Ray Bradbury
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Grace Hopper
1906 – 1992
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.
"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-cl…"
Ray Bradbury
1920 – 2012
H. Rider Haggard was a British novelist famed for pioneering the adventure genre with novels such as "King Solomon's Mines" and "She." His tales of exotic lands and heroic quests captivated readers worldwide in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
"Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others m…"
Connections
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