33 Top Quotes By Grace Hopper For Those Who Aspire To Build A Better Mousetrap

You manage things and lead people.

  

If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

  

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

  

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

  

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

  

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

  

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

  

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

  

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

  

Manage things. Lead people.

  

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

  

It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

  

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.

  

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.

  

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

  

If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.

  

I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.

Awards

  

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.

  

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

  

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!

  

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've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

Past

  

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

  

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

  

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

  

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Peace

  

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

  

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.'

  

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

Life

  

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

  

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.