Grace Hopper Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?"

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

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

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.

In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.