Grace Hopper Quotes

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

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

You manage things and lead people.

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

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

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

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

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

It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

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

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

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!

Manage things. Lead people.

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.

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.

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

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

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

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.