Grace Hopper Quotes on Innovation
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A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things.
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I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. [:] they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs.
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The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'
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On COBOL: 'But Grace, then anyone will be able to write programs!'