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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.

Norman Ralph Augustine

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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Denver
Colorado
Norman R. Augustine
Norman Augustine
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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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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 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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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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The more one produces, the less one gets.
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Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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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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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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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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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 XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.
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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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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
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