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  • Manage things. Lead people.

  • One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

  • A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

    1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.
  • It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

    Grace Murray Hopper, Chantal Mompoullan (1984*). “Voice of America Interviews with Eight American Women of Achievement”
  • You manage things and lead people.

  • Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

    "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.
  • I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

    "Grace Hoppe: Navy Admiral and Computer Pioneer". Book by Charlene W Billings, p. 74, 1989.
  • You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

    "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.
  • I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

    The Reader's Digest, p. 185, October 1994.
  • I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.

  • 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.

  • I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?

    "60 Minutes" interview, August 24, 1986.
  • If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.

  • To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

  • It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

  • The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

  • If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

  • At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can.

  • If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

    "Built to Learn: The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization". Book by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171, 2003.
  • The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

  • I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

  • Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.

  • The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

    "Speech by SEC Staff: The Evolving Mutual Fund Landscape: Adapting to the Challenges of Change". Remarks by Paul F. Roye, www.sec.gov. December 06, 2001.
  • You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

    "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.
  • We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

    Quoted in the OCLC Newsletter, no.167, Mar/ Apr 1987.
  • Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.

  • From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

    Time, April 16, 1984.
  • If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

  • We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

    "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.
  • Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

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    Grace Hopper

    • Born: December 9, 1906
    • Died: January 1, 1992
    • Occupation: Computer Scientist