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A billion saved is a billion earned.

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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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
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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 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 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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The more one produces, the less one gets.
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Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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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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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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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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The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.
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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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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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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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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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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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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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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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All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
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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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