ask forgiveness get permission

[Bill Mullins]

The wikiquote entry for Grace Hopper credits here with"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." (quoted in the U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine, July 1986)
I don't see it covered in the archives.
_Duncanville [TX] Suburban_ 9/24/1981 p 2 col 1"Stewart's Law of Retroaction: It's easier to get forgiveness than permission."
Bill Mullins

 		 	   		  
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