On 2011-06-23 13:04, John Sessoms wrote:
From: John Francis
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:18:17PM -0400, Ken Waller wrote:
> An old saying I heard often at work was 'don't ask for permission,
> ask for forgiveness'.
>
Often attributed to Grace Hopper. I don't know if there's any
validity to the claim, but I've certainly heard it more than once.
I heard it expressed many times in the military as "It's easier to
obtain forgiveness than it is to get permission."
One of my favorites along those lines was "Demo" Dick Marcinko's
"UNODIR". If he wanted to do something of which higher-higher might not
approve, he'd send up a message "Unless otherwise directed (UNODIR),
we're going to X to do Y". Of course, he sent it just as his team went
off the communication grid, so no "otherwise direction" was going to get
through.
--
Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)
--
PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List
[email protected]
http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow
the directions.
