Grace Hopper Quotes & Sayings

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

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

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. — Grace Hopper

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. — Grace Hopper

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

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

Humans are allergic to change. — 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

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

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

I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond? — 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've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question. — 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

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

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?' — 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

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. — Grace Hopper

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

You manage things; you lead people. — Grace Hopper

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission. — Grace Hopper

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

It is easier to apologize than to get permission. — Grace Hopper

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

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