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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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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Denver
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Norman R. Augustine
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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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There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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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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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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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 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 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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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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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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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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