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Grace Hopper Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Grace Hopper
Home, Ifs

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

Grace Hopper
Needs, Compare, Please
"60 Minutes" interview, August 24, 1986.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Grace Hopper
Giving, Needs, Want

You manage things and lead people.

Grace Hopper
People, Manage

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

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

Grace Hopper
Apology, Apologizing, Permission

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