Grace Hopper

"The most important aspect of my work is teaching others to dream bigger."

"I wanted to write a compiler, and nobody believed it could be done."

"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."

"I also knew that technology would always be changing, but people would not."

"The trick to being successful is to believe in yourself and work harder than everyone else."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, but both are essential."

"Modern business must learn to balance profit with purpose."

"You cannot truly understand something until you can teach it to a machine."

"The reason we have to maintain standards is because without them, we have chaos."

"Every system has entropy; the question is whether you fight it or accept it."

"I have found that there is no limit to what can be accomplished when you do not care who gets the credit."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

"Programming is not about computers; it is about communicating with other people."

"We teach people how to work, but we don't teach them how to think."

"The barriers to innovation are not technological; they are psychological."

"One bug in a thousand-line program will hide; one bug in a hundred-line program is easy to find."

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution."

"You cannot possibly expect success if you are not willing to take risks."

"My life is a continuing education in how to help others."

"The only constant in life is change, and we must learn to embrace it."

"I have always believed that the greatest asset any organization has is its people."

"Life is a journey, not a destination; enjoy every moment of it."

"The world needs more dreamers and more doers. You must be both."

"Fear is the enemy of progress, so face your fears head-on."

"Small minds discuss people; great minds discuss ideas."

"Every hour that goes by, something new is invented that makes what you know obsolete."

"Never assume that because something worked before, it will continue to work."

"The moment you make a mistake and realize it, you must stop and correct it immediately."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic chords, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

"The only real limitation is imagination."