Randi Harper

“You fear me, because you don't know what I am. I look like a woman, I sound like a man, and your reason tells you the sum total is impossible!”
― Anonymous

“How do you deal with it? How do you keep from falling apart? That—What happened to them is horrible. How can a person do that to another?” Rose took a slow breath. “You cry, you get angry, then you do something about it.” I watched her leave, the clack of her quick heels sounding sharp before the door closed. Yeah. I can do that.”
― Kim Harrison, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead

“Hopper’s thrust was always to simplify and to demystify. She reserved some of her most cutting remarks for those who insisted that only an expert in writing machine code could run a machine; she had no time for programmers who saw themselves as high priests standing between computers and the public.46”
― Kathleen Broome Williams, Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea

“Failing to get institutional support, Hopper continued working on building a data processing compiler on her own. “When you have a good idea,” she loved to tell audiences, “and you’ve tried it and you know it’s going to work, go ahead and do it—because it’s much easier to apologize afterwards than it is to get permission.”
― Kathleen Broome Williams, Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea