Quote #12

The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'

More from Grace Hopper

  1. The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
  2. You manage things, you lead people.
  3. I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.
  4. On COBOL: 'But Grace, then anyone will be able to write programs!'
  5. I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. [:] they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do progr…
  6. Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
  7. At the end of about a week, I called back and said, 'I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?'
  8. In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, 'Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.'

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