Facts

The clock in her office ran counterclockwise to remind her that there's always more than one way to do something.
She hated the words "because we've always done it this way."
She joked that she created COBOL because she didn't like to balance her checkbook.
When she was a child, she practiced her troubleshooting skills (notalways successfully) by taking apart alarm clocks.
She called her Admiral's uniform her "identifier" and used it to remind listeners that every record in a computer must have an identifier to be able to store data and retrieve it later.
During her lifetime, she was a popular TV talk show guest
She chain-smoked unfiltered Lucky Strike cigarettes.
She liked to be introduced as the "third programmer on the first large-scale digital computer."
She is credited with applying the engineering term "bug" to computing when her team found a moth trapped in a relay of the MarkII computer.
She was first asked to resign from the Navy when she was 40 because she was too old. By the time she was 80, President Reagan had to go before Congress once a year to get permission for her NOT to have to resign from the Navy

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