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He could have been sorry before signing it. It would have been more useful...
by jvehent 15y ago
He could have been sorry before signing it. It would have been more useful...
- Create 15y agoIt is just business as usual: It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- As quoted in U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986) Variant: If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. -- As quoted in Built to Learn : The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization (2003) by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
- voodoochilo 15y agoactually he is a she, but you are right. i don't understand those people - they do not even read this stuff.
- talmand 15y agoIt's by design. Make the text so long and complicated no one bothers to read it and go by the falsely written summary. That's how the U.S. Congress works, as an example. There are so many laws on the books written by people who purposely wrote them to be difficult to comprehend so that practically every U.S. citizen is a criminal of one sort or another.
- Create 15y agoQu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre. If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu