Grace Hopper — American Scientist born on December 09, 1906, died on January 01, 1992

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper, née Grace Brewster Murray, was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944, invented the first compiler for a computer programming language, and was one of those who popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages. She is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches... (wikipedia)

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'