38 Quotes by Grace Hopper

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

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

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!

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

If you want my ghost just say ' We've always done it that way.' and i will haunt you for 24 hours.

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.

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.

It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.