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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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Businessperson
Denver
Colorado
Norman R. Augustine
Norman Augustine
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Hardware
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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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It costs a lot to build bad products
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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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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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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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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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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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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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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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The more one produces, the less one gets.
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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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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 IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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