Creative Quotations from . . .
Grace Murray Hopper
(1906-1992) born on Dec 09
US "military leader, mathematician, educator". "She was co- inventor of the computer language COBOL and coined the term "bug.""
 
   
F
If it isn't bolted down, bring it home."

R
"Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew."
A
"If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but . . .to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel."
N
"From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it."
K
"At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "The Manager's Book of Quotations," by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan P. Siegel, 1989."
R: "In "The Manager's Book of Quotations," by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan P. Siegel, 1989."
A: "In "The Manager's Book of Quotations," by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan P. Siegel, 1989."
N: "On the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from an experimental computer at Harvard in 1945; in "Time," 16 Apr 84"
K: "In "The Manager's Book of Quotations," by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan P. Siegel, 1989."



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