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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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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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The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
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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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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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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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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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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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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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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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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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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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It costs a lot to build bad products
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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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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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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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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