Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
I like this video of Admiral Grace Hopper talking about processing speeds. She illustrates it with her famous "nanoseconds" - pieces of wire that a electricity would travel in a nanosecond.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8</a><p>What a great role model, for programmers, for women, but also for anyone working in a bureaucratic system.<p>One of her famous quotes is "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission". It became a classic. Python's programming paradigm, for example, which prefers exceptions instead of condition checks is named that.<p>"Computer bugs" phrase also seem to originate with her.<p>Also based on Wikipedia she also was the oldest serving officer in the United States Navy.