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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Norman Ralph Augustine

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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Norman R. Augustine
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We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'
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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing.
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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.
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Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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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.
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The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.
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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
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People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
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