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"I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "What are you?"

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

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."

"In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."

"There's something you learn in your first boot-camp, or training camp: If they put you down somewhere with nothing to do, go to sleep — you don't know when you'll get any more."

"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."

"Grace Murray Hopper Award"

"Schlesinger Library Luncheon Series : Audio collection, 1979–1987 : A Finding Aid, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University"

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

"At present, we're putting on paper a lot of stuff that never needed to be on paper. We do need to keep the records. But there isn't any reason for printing them. The next generation growing up with th…"

"Grace Hopper in Chips, the United States Navy information technology magazine"

"Grace Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman"

"Website for the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing"

"Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems."

"was the first machine man built that assisted the power of his brain instead of the strength of his arm."

"I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. ... they carefully told me, computers could only do arithmetic; they could not do programs."

"We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a ne…"

"Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper"

"Grace Murray Hopper", in Biographies of Women Mathematicians, at Agnes Scott College"

"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?"

"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise."

"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 Stat…"