Grace Hopper — "I have a theory that a quarter of the people in the world are creative, a quarte…"

"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…"

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

"If we're going to have computers, we're going to have to have programmers."

"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.'"

"We didn't have any manuals. We had to figure it out ourselves."