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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
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Norman R. Augustine
Norman 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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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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All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
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Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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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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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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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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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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Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
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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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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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Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.
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The more one produces, the less one gets.
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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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