Grace Hopper Quotes

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

My week beats your year.

Never settle. There is no need to rush.

A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.

The world will not wait for us.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

Learn to labour and to wait.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.

Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .” She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the fourth answer?” “Wait,” she said.

You definitely feel a little exposed, because some of your friends call you like, "Man, I need that much."

As women, we are constantly told that we need to compare ourselves to a girl in school, to our co-­workers, to the images in a magazine. How is the world going to advance if we're always comparing ourselves to others?