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!

I had a moth taped to the log book.

Our young people are the future. We must give them positive leadership.

I've never been bored in my entire life.

The computer is a very powerful tool, but it is a tool. It is not an end in itself.

I think we're in a renaissance period of information. But we have to be careful not to drown in it.

I don't think we're thinking ahead enough. We're just reacting.

You don't have to be 'the' expert. You just have to know how to find the expert.

I've always been impatient. I want to see things happen.

We need to teach people how to think, not what to think.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

I've been known as the 'first' but I prefer to be known as a 'pioneer.'

I don't worry about history. I worry about the future.

If you can't do it with paper and pencil, you shouldn't be doing it with a computer.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

I like to make things happen.

We are not moving forward if we are merely standing still.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

We must communicate with each other, or we will perish.

The only way to learn is to do.