“It really amazed me that these men were programmers, because I thought it was women’s work!”
— Elsie Shutt
“I still think, of all the fields open to women, computer science is the most wonderful one.”
– Paula Hawthorn
“It was love at
first byte for me when I took my first programming course.”
– Eileen Buckholtz
“[computing] was very interesting to me. It was something that I had a real interest in doing, and I was not disappointed when I came out, when I had the interview, and when I started to work. I just thoroughly enjoyed it and I enjoyed my career here at NASA, at NACA, and to see it become what we were, and the many changes that were made.”
– Annie Easley