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The more one produces, the less one gets.

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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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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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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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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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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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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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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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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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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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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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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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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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 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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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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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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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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