Grace Hopper — "I'm not afraid of anything. I'm too old for that."

"I have a theory that a quarter of the people in the world are creative, a quarter are destructive, and half are just plain dumb."

"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…"

"At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can."

"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things."

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