Grace Hopper Quotes
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Manage things. Lead people.
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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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It is easier to apologize than to get permission.
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You manage things and lead people.
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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.
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I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.
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You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.
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I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.
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I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.
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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 computers and operate them in parallel.
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I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?
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If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.
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To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.
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It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.
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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.'
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If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!
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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.
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If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.
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The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission
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I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.
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Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.
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The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'
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You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.
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We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.
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Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.
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From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.
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We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.
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Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.
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