In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, 'Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.'... At the end of about a week, I called back and said, 'I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?'
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"I'm not a computer scientist. I'm a mathematician. I just happen to work with computers."
"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."
"In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of comput…"
"I often say I got out of the Navy in 1966, but I never left."
"There are two things that are hard in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
Describing her method of using physical lengths of wire to visually represent and explain nanoseconds and microseconds to demonstrate the speed of electricity.
Date: 1986 (CBS 60 Minutes interview, August 24)
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