Oct 10, 2026
“There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.” — Margaret Hamilton | Quote of the Day
Margaret Hamilton, the MIT software engineer who led the team that wrote the on-board flight software for the Apollo missions and coined the term “software engineering,” on the line from her 2009 reflection on the Apollo programme: “Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world. There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.” She died on 30 September 2026 at 90; her English Wikipedia page drew 162,739 views on 8 October as the news spread.