Hidden Figures * Quotes

Jim Johnson: "You're their computer at NASA. They let women handle that sort of..."
Katherine Johnson: "Yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson, and it's not because we wear skirts. It's because we wear glasses."

Paul Stafford: "There's no protocol for women attending."
Katherine Johnson: "There's no protocol for man circling the earth either, sir."

Karl Zielinski: "Let me ask you, if you were a white man would you wish to be an engineer?"
Mary Jackson: "I wouldn't have to, I'd already be one."

"Three Negro women are chasing a white police officer down a highway in 1961. That is a God-ordained miracle."

Al Harrison: "You're never where I need you to be. Where the hell do you go everyday?"
Katherine Johnson: "The colored bathroom is a mile away."

"We all get to the peek together or we don't get there at all."
[to Stafford]

Katherine Johnson: "I don't even know if I can keep up in that room."
Dorothy Vaughan: "You're better with the numbers than anyone in there, Katherine. Just make that pencil move as fast as your mind is."