Grace Hopper

They don't teach you that in school. You learn it by doing it.

The young people coming along are going to be the ones who solve the problems.

I'm very much interested in people doing things, not just talking about them.

I've always been a little bit of a rebel.

The computer is a tool, not a master.

If we're going to have computers, we're going to have to have programmers.

I don't believe in taking no for an answer.

The future belongs to those who are willing to take risks.

You manage things; you lead people.

I'm not interested in the past. I'm interested in the future.

Why do you sit there and ask me questions? Why don't you get up and do something?

My father always told me, 'Grace, you can do anything you want, you just have to work for it.'

Computers are like people. They have to be taught.

The greatest danger is not in failure, but in succeeding too easily.

I always say the Mark I was the most fun.

I'm a great believer in the younger generation.

The only constant in the computer industry is change.

I never met a computer I didn't like.

We didn't have any manuals. We had to figure it out ourselves.

There are two things that are hard in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.