Grace Hopper

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

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!

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. _x000D_ _x000D_ Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.

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

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

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

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.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

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

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

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.