Grace Murray Hopper Famous Quotes
"I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say 'We've always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours."
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
You manage things you lead people.
"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
Grace Murray Hopper Quotations
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
Noel Coward
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
e e cummings
"Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."
Oren Arnold
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
A E Housman
All proofs rest on premises.
Aristotle
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
Robert Graves
"My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself..."
Trieu Thi Trinh
Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
"I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it."
Samuel Goldwyn