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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: One cannot legislate problems out
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Two-thirds of the Earth's surface
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: The best way to make
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: One should expect that the
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: It's easy to get a
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Law Number IX: Acronyms and
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Law Number XXIV: The only
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: A hungry dog hunts best.
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Simple systems are not feasible
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: It is very expensive to
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Law Number XXXIX: Never promise
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Although most products will soon
Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Decreased business base increases overhead.
A billion saved is a billion earned.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: A billion saved is a
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Bulls do not win bull
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Most projects start out slowly
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: By the time of the
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Law Number XX: In any
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Hardware works best when it
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Law Number V: One-tenth of
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Fools rush in where incumbents
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Law Number XLVIII: The more
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: If you can afford to
Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Simply stated, it is sagacious
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: People do not win people
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Law Number XV: The last
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."
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Too often technology is perceived
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Law Number XXXVI: The thickness
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm ... gets eaten.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: The early bird gets the
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Law Number XVI: In the
Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Law Number XXVIII: It is
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: By the time the people
Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants
It costs a lot to build bad products.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: It costs a lot to
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Soloist are inspiring in Opera
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: If a sufficient number of
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Only by providing leading-edge human
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: There are many highly successful
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: If the Earth could be
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Any task can be completed
If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: If today was half as
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes: Software is like entropy. It
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