Grace Hopper Quotes

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

The danger to the state lies not in the intrusion of new thought but in the effort to stubbornly maintain the old state thought.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

France has chosen to ignore the great transformation of the 21st century and cultivate a [culture of] status quo and rigidity.

The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.

If you think you're doing everything right, then you have a tendency to stand pat.

Because we've always done it that way.' During my 12-year tenure as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, I heard those words all too often. The agency, in my experience, has an entrenched management culture resistant to change.

. . . escape is easier than change.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

Competence is the enemy of change!

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.

How will the world change if we do not question it?

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.