For the record, RADM (which was Commodore, at the time) Grace Hopper gave the commencement speech when I graduated. I was in the navy, though not yet commissioned, and I took Hopper’s famous “It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission” as a direct order.
Awesome, ROFLMAO! xD
Grace Hopper with her nanosecond and microsecond wires!
All decisions are simple. If you are stuck with a complex decision, it should have been resolved at a lower level. Unequivocally end it.
The lady has a destroyer named after her. That alone is badass!