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Hardware works best when it matters the least.

Norman Ralph Augustine

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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Denver
Colorado
Norman R. Augustine
Norman Augustine
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A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.
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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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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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The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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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 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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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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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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By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
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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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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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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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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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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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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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