Margaret H. Hamilton Quotes

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

AEW is history-making. When the chance presented itself to be a part of something so groundbreaking, I wasn't going to wait around any longer.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.

We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.

One of the key things in the tech business in particular is that you need to be able to push boundaries.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.

Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don't take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It's just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

I take whatever good part comes along.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me.

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.