Grace Hopper — "I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future."

"I never met a computer I didn't like."

"You can't just teach people to do things. You have to teach them to think."

"If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but... to build systems of comp…"

"In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, 'Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.'... At the end of about a week, I called back and said, 'I need someth…"

"The computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may not be what you want it to do."