Grace Hopper

"I think it's kind of fun to do the impossible."

"I have never been disappointed. I have had great luck in finding people who were willing to work."

"You can teach an old dog new tricks."

"We are in the business of managing."

"I would like to know what makes you think you can do something."

"I am an American and that is a wonderful thing to be."

"I believe in having people who are going to make us think about what we believe in."

"The fact that computers can store information doesn't mean they think."

"I think the real issue is whether or not you can make a computer understand English."

"I never expected to see the day when girls would get admittance to Boy Scouts."

"I always liked to keep the sun in my eyes."

"We didn't know it was impossible, so we just did it."

"Innovation is not rocket science - it's creating a different set of assumptions."

"I always have champagne at 11:00 because, you know, it's a celebration."

"I thought we might be able to make a better language."

"I got tired of waiting for someone to fix things, so I fixed them myself."

"Determination is vital to success."

"I want to prove I can do this, and if I do, I'll move on to something else."

"It's often easier to do something than to explain why it can't be done."

"I think we should have a party every single day."

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

"I have the feeling that other people can see these limitations, that they can see things I cannot see."

"Grace Hopper, the woman who didn't like being called a 'programmer'."

"I kept coming back because I wanted to understand how things worked."

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

"I wanted to prove that computers could be more than just big calculators."

"People are inherently lazy, so we must make things easy."

"I was convinced we could make a machine that would understand English."

"Education is my contribution to this complicated world."

"If you can imagine it, you can build it."