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If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but . . .to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.

Source: In The Manager's Book of Quotations, by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan P. Siegel, 1989.
-- Grace Murray Hopper, (Dec 9 1906-1992), US military leader, mathematician, educator; She was co- inventor of the computer language COBOL and coined the term bug.

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