Grace Hopper — "My father always told me, 'Grace, you can do anything you want, you just have to…"

"I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say, 'We've always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you 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 comput…"

"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."

"I think the Mark I was probably the most exciting thing I ever did."

"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 ne…"