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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

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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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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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 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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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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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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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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The more one produces, the less one gets.
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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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By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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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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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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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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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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The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
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