Grace Hopper Quotes

I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.

Defect-free software does not exist.

When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.

I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.

Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me.

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

Good code is its own best documentation.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

Every disruptive innovation is powered by a simplifying technology, and then the technology has to get embedded in a different kind of a business model. The first two decades of digital computing were characterized by the huge mainframe computers that filled a whole room, and they had to be operated by PhD Computer Scientists. It took the engineers at IBM about four years to design these mainframe computers because there were no rules. It was an intuitive art and just by trial and error and experimentation they would evolve to a computer that worked.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4