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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Norman R. Augustine
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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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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 IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
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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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There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
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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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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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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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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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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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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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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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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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All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
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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 XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
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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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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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It costs a lot to build bad products
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