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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
A billion saved is a billion earned.
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Law Number XLVIII: The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all your time talking about nothing.
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."
Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm ... gets eaten.
Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.
Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
It costs a lot to build bad products.
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens.
There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.
If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.