Grace Hopper Quotes - Page 2

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• I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?

  Grace Hopper

  Needs, Compare, Please

  "60 Minutes" interview, August 24, 1986.

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• It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

  Grace Hopper

  Business, Done, Approval

  Quoted in Computer world, 10 Sept. 1984.

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• We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

  Grace Hopper

  Technology, Computer, Forget

  Quoted in the OCLC Newsletter, no.167, Mar/ Apr 1987.

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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.

  Grace Hopper

  Believe, Boss, Steps

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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.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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• I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

  Grace Hopper

  Running, Computer, Arithmetic

  "Grace Hoppe: Navy Admiral and Computer Pioneer". Book by Charlene W Billings, p. 74, 1989.

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• If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

  Grace Hopper

  Home, Ifs

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• I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

  Grace Hopper

  Giving, Needs, Want

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• You manage things and lead people.

  Grace Hopper

  People, Manage

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• We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

  Grace Hopper

  Change, Getting Started, Model T

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• It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Apology, Apologizing, Permission

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