Grace Hopper

The future is not a place we are going to, but a place we are creating.

I'm not a follower of rules. I'm a creator of rules.

A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.

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

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.

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

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

They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

We're not moving forward if we're just doing the same old thing.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.

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

We must not forget that the computer is a tool to help humans, not replace them.

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.'

I seem to do a lot of retiring.

We need to be willing to fail and to learn from our failures.

A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

I've always been more interested in what we *can* do, not what we can't.