Grace Hopper Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way.'
• One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
• From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
• I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?
• I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.
• To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.
• I've always been more interested in the future than in the past
• 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…
• I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life,…
• It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
• You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.
• 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…
• We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.
• We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.
• It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
• You manage things; you lead people.
• If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

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