Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.
Grace HopperI'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.
Grace HopperTo me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.
Grace Hopper