“If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.”
Grace Hopper

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COMPUTER
Read 200 of the best computer quotes from Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Donald Knuth and more on computers, programming, the internet and technology.
“If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.”
Grace Hopper
“You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.”
John von Neumann
“Information is the resolution of uncertainty.”
Claude Shannon
“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.”
Claude Shannon
“If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.”
Gordon Moore
“Only the paranoid survive.”
Andy Grove
“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure.”
Andy Grove
“Don't be encumbered by history. Go off and do something wonderful.”
Robert Noyce
“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.”
Thomas J. Watson
“Think.”
Thomas J. Watson
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
Steve Jobs
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
Steve Jobs
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates
“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.”
Bill Gates
“If you're changing the world, you're working on important things.”
Paul Allen
“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”
Steve Wozniak
“When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.”
Larry Ellison
“Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people or find a different room.”
Michael Dell
“Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”
Jack Ma
“In God we trust, everyone else must bring data to the table.”
Narayana Murthy
“If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”
Azim Premji
“If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.”A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Focused, hard work is the real key to success.”
John Carmack
“In the information age, the barriers just aren't there. The barriers are self-imposed.”
John Carmack
“If it hurts, do it more often.”
Martin Fowler