Grace Murray Hopper > Quotes

“It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.”
― Grace Murray Hopper

“Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down."

(CBS 60 Minutes interview, March 6, 1983)”
― Grace Murray Hopper

“Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.”
― Grace Murray Hopper

“The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”
― Grace Murray Hopper

“The most dangerous phrase in the language is we've always done”
― Grace Hopper

“Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.”
― Grace Murray Hopper

“Wouldn’t it be dull to do things that ended?”
― Grace Murray Hopper via Lynn Gilbert, Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times

“The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘We’ve always done it this way.”
― Grace Murray Hopper