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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Denver
Colorado
Norman R. Augustine
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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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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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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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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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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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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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It costs a lot to build bad products
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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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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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