<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>"You manage things and lead people" - Grace Hopper</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div><br>On Mar 12, 2013, at 12:32 PM, George Toft <<a href="mailto:george@georgetoft.com">george@georgetoft.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it
is to get permission." ~Grace Hopper<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.history.navy.mil/bios/hopper_grace.htm">http://www.history.navy.mil/bios/hopper_grace.htm</a><br>
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Now here's the story . . .<br>
Captain Hopper was put in charge of the COBOL project and had a
Chief (senior enlisted person that usually runs divisions of
personnel and gets things done - kinda like a team lead but
better). Her office was barren. She said: "Chief, get me some
furniture." Chief did what Chiefs do best, and he found a
warehouse full of office furniture, and got his team to move some
of it to their office. A couple weeks later, the warehouse
manager showed up asking about the furniture, where they got it
(because he knew), and wanted to see the requisition paperwork.
Capt Hopper, of course, had no paperwork. Caught red-handed, she
asked him: "If I requested the furniture, you would have said no.
Since I already have it, and you don't need it, can I keep it?"
He agreed. Thus was born the saying "It's easier to ask
forgiveness than it is to get permission."<br>
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Sometimes, ya just gotta do it! (TM)<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Regards,
George Toft
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On 3/12/2013 2:29 AM, Derek Trotter wrote:<br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS">They sneer at COBOL but 50 years on and
it's still in use.<br>
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I like how Grace taped the moth to the log book as if she
thought she wouldn't be believed. Yes she was one of a kind.
The Navy kept making her retire then calling her back because
they couldn't do without her.<br>
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"I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual."
Patrick Moore</pre>
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