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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Norman R. Augustine
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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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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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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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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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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
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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 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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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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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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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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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 process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
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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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