Mon 2 Aug 2010
Amazing Grace
Posted by PJ under new things, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“A ship in port is safe; but that’s not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things.”
—Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, quoted in Abacus, Vol. 2, Iss. 1 (Fall 1984)
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Are you sure this is not John Shedd?
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Augustus_Shedd
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for.
Salt from My Attic (1928), The Mosher Press, Portland, Maine; cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) ed. Fred R. Shapiro, p. 705;
It’s entirely possible. I do try to research the attributions, but sometimes someone may have the quote attributed to them when they are in fact only quoting an earlier, obscure source.