From: Mike Andrews [mailto:mikea@mikea.ath.cx] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 1:44 PM To: 'NANOG' Subject: Re: common time-management mistake: rack & stack
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:15:09PM -0500, Tony Patti wrote:
In the context of the military scenario above, Grace Hopper comes to mind because of her nanoseconds etc "In her retirement speech, instead of dwelling on the past, she talked about moving toward the future, stressing the importance of leadership." http://inventors.about.com/od/hstartinventors/a/Grace_Hopper_2.htm I was lucky enough to have heard her speak once at an ACM event.
I still have my nanosecond. Did she hand them out to the crowd there?
Yes, of course! I remember that she said they were borrowed from a phone closet in the Pentagon... Of course, she is also famous for "It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission" Notable Quotation from her Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper Tony Patti CIO S. Walter Packaging Corp.