Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Grace Hopper
- It’s always easier to apologize for something you’ve already done than to get approval for it in advance.
- If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.
- We’re flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.
- I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.
- 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.
- 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.
- I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.
- Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don’t run against logic – you run against people who can’t change their minds.
- I’ve received many honors and I’m grateful for them; but I’ve already received the highest award I’ll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.
- 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!
Grace Hopper (1906-1992) was a pioneering computer scientist and one of the most influential figures in the history of computing. Born as Grace Brewster Murray in New York City, she earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University in 1934, breaking barriers for women in academia.
During World War II, Hopper joined the United States Navy Reserve and became one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, a mechanical computer used for military calculations. Her work on the Mark I laid the foundation for her later contributions to computer programming languages.
In the 1950s, Hopper developed the first compiler, known as the A-0 system, which allowed programmers to use English-like commands instead of machine code. This innovation revolutionized programming and paved the way for higher-level programming languages like COBOL, which she co-developed in the early 1960s. COBOL became the standard language for business applications and played a crucial role in software development for decades.
Throughout her career, Grace Hopper was a tireless advocate for the importance of computer programming languages, and she coined the term “bug” to describe computer glitches after finding an actual moth inside a machine.
Her contributions to computer science earned her numerous accolades, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Grace Hopper’s legacy continues to inspire generations of programmers, especially women, to pursue careers in technology.
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