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Quotes from The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper — Grace Hopper

1906–1992 United States

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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.

The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)

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.

The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)

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

The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)

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 new question.

The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Grace Hopper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.