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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Norman Ralph Augustine

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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
Author
Businessperson
Denver
Colorado
Norman R. Augustine
Norman Augustine
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Computer
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Humor
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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 do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
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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.
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It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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It costs a lot to build bad products
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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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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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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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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 you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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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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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.
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