t is easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. A friend of mine recently told me these wise words and I had to research the source of this adage.
Apparently it was popularised by Grace Murray Hopper, a US Navy Rear Admiral and pioneer computer scientist but has been in use for many years before including the 1903 novel titled A Professional Rider by Mrs Edward Kennard where she wrote, “Once married, it would be infinitely easier to ask her father’s forgiveness than to beg his permission beforehand.”
