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.

Grace Hopper

It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.

Grace Hopper

The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way.'

Grace Hopper

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

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

Grace Hopper

You manage things; you lead people.

Grace Hopper

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Grace Hopper

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

Grace Hopper

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.

Grace Hopper

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.

Grace Hopper

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

Grace Hopper

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

Grace Hopper