RE: [atlarge-discuss] ELECTION REPORT

[Walter Schmidt <walts@dorsai.org>]

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Jeff Holt wrote:

> As to the comment about apologizing after the fact, the reference was to
> a well known quote which I am sure Walt got if no one else did (look up
> the history of COBOL)....

"Go ahead and do it. It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get
permission" - Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

 http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Hopper.Danis.html
 http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html
 http://www.hopper.navy.mil/grace/grace.htm

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