Grace Hopper — "A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to se…"

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

"I always say the Mark I was the most fun."

"I seem to do a lot of retiring."

"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 clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise."

"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 comput…"