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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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The more one produces, the less one gets.
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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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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 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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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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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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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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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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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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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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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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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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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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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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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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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.
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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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