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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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Denver
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Norman R. Augustine
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The more one produces, the less one gets.
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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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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.
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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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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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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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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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It costs a lot to build bad products
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It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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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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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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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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