It 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

It 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