Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper, née Grace Brewster Murray, was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944, invented the first compiler for a computer programming language, and was one of those who popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 December 1906
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Grace Hopper quotes about
Manage things. Lead people.
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.
Humans are allergic to change.
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 twenty-four hours.
We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.
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.
I've always been more interested in the future than in the past
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
I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.
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.
We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.
It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
It is easier to apologize than to get permission.
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.