A collection of famous quotes and sayings by Grace Hopper on education, spirituality, change, life, thoughts, art, foundation, leadership, loyalty, and tradition.
33 Top Quotes By Grace Hopper For Those Who Aspire To Build A Better Mousetrap
Grace Hopper was an illustrious American Naval officer and computer scientist. She is accredited with inventing one of the first linkers. A trailblazer of computer programming, she assisted in defining the design of COBOL. Prior to joining navy, she did her Ph.D in Mathematics and served as a professor at Vassar College. In 1944, she began her computing career and was one of the first programmers of the ‘Harvard Mark I’ computer. She was also the part of the team that developed ‘UNIVAC I,’ the first commercial computer produced in the United States. Here is a compilation of sayings and quotes by Grace Hopper that are sure to inspire you.
I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?
Grace Hopper
It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.
Grace Hopper
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.
Grace Hopper
It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
Grace Hopper
We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.
Grace Hopper
We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.
Grace Hopper
I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.
Grace Hopper
Manage things. Lead people.
Grace Hopper
We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.
Grace Hopper
It is easier to apologize than to get permission.
Grace Hopper
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.
Grace Hopper
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.
Grace Hopper
I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.
Grace Hopper
If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.
Grace Hopper
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.
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.
Grace Hopper
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
Grace Hopper
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!
Grace Hopper
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
Grace Hopper
I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.
To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.
Grace Hopper
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.'
Grace Hopper
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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.
Grace Hopper
The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'
Grace Hopper
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.
Grace Hopper
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.
