Grace Hopper

(1906-1992), Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, and an early computer programmer. Developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language.

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2 Attributed
3 Quote about Grace Hopper
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It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
- Cover of the July 1986 issue of the U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine
"Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems."
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Newsletter, March/April, 1987, No. 167 (editor/author is Philip Schieber)

"Nobody believed that I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic."
"A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for."
"The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."
- Possibly quoted in Computer Networks, 1st. ed (1981), by Andrew Tanenbaum, p. 168, without attribution.
"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.' "