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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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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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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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
It costs a lot to build bad products
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By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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.'
Norman Ralph Augustine
Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
Norman Ralph Augustine
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Norman Ralph Augustine
The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
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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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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
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There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
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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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Norman Ralph Augustine
A billion saved is a billion earned.
Norman Ralph Augustine
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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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