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By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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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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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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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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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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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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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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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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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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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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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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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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The more one produces, the less one gets.
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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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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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Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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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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