Patti Niehoff

qotd

March 9, 2004

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer. — Douglas Adams

I love election years!

March 8, 2004

From ScrappleFace: Weighing in on the debate over same-sex marriage, Sen. John Forbes Kerry today confessed that he is “Biblically bi-textual.”

Just thinking about the qotd right below this. I’m sure Adm. Hopper had to deal with way more than her fair share of idiots (and it’s the well-educated idiots that can be most annoying), but this sentence is still quite revealing of how people still think. Most especially, of course, with computers – so I … Continue reading just anyone

qotd

March 8, 2004

To Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, on the development of COBOL: “But Grace, then anyone will be able to write programs!”