Grace Hopper

Quotes

• “This saying appears to be due to John Augustus Shedd; it was quoted in "Grace Hopper : The Youthful Teacher of Us All" b...”
• “Attributed to Hopper, without source, in The UNIX-HATERS Handbook (1994), edited by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, and ...”
• “Variant: That brings me to the most important piece of advice that I can give to all of you: if you've got a good idea, ...”
• “Admiral Hopper, ... is the first woman to receive America's highest technology award as an individual. The award recogni...”
• “At present, we're putting on paper a lot of stuff that never needed to be on paper. We do need to keep the records. But ...”
• “It's just like planning a dinner. You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it's ready when you need it. Program...”
• “We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intel...”
• “I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and ...”
• “As quoted in Built to Learn: The Inside Story of How Rockwell Collins Became a True Learning Organization (2003) by Clif...”
• “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...”
• “David Sayre, while in a panel discussion with Hopper, as quoted in Management and the Computer of the Future (1962) by S...”
• “You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran...”
• “I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. ... they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they...”
• “As spoken at Space Coast 1987 speaking about the Harvard Mark I computer. The Computer was originally She in reference t...”
• “Schlesinger Library Luncheon Series : Audio collection, 1979-1987 (inclusive): A Finding Aid, Radcliffe Institute, Harva...”
• “On demonstrating a billionth of a second of electricity travel with a piece of wire, in an interview on 60 Minutes (24 A...”
• “On demonstrating a millionth of a second of electricity travel with a piece of wire, in an interview on 60 Minutes (24 A...”
• “In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it ov...”
• “To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowl...”
• “At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsec...”
• “Admiral Hopper Awarded the National Medal of Technology", Digital Equipment Corporation Press Release (16 September 1991...”
• “[The Computer] was the first machine man built that assisted the power of his brain instead of the strength of his arm.”
• “I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?”
• “Variant: If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.”
• “On being the oldest active-duty officer in the U.S. military, in an interview on 60 Minutes (24 August 1986)”
• “As appeared in the October 1986 issue of Chips, a Department of the Navy information technology magazine”
• “A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things.”
• “As quoted in Management and the Computer of the Future (1962) by Sloan School of Management, p. 273”
• “As quoted in Grace Hopper : Navy Admiral and Computer Pioneer (1989) by Charlene W. Billings, p. 74”
• “Unsourced variant: The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way.”
• “Widely reported quote regarding the development of COBOL circa 1954, but as yet unsourced.”
• “The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”
• “Grace Murray Hopper", in Biographies of Women Mathematicians, at Agnes Scott College”
• “This saying has been in print already 1957, in Gerald Kershs "Fowler's End", p. 23.”
• “The most dangerous phrase in the language is 'We've always done it this way!'".”
• “Grace Hopper in Chips, the United States Navy information technology magazine”
• “Unsourced: One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.”
• “Website for the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing”
• “Grace Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman (2 October 1986)”
• “I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.”
• “Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.”
• “As quoted in the U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986)”
• “It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.”
• “The future: Hardware, Software, and People in Carver, 1983”
• “As quoted in The Reader's Digest (October 1994), p. 185”
• “But Grace, then anyone will be able to write programs!”
• “On parallel computing, as appeared in: (quote p. 207)”
• “Actually attested since mid-19th century.”
• “Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper”
• “Grace Murray Hopper Award”