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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.
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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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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Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
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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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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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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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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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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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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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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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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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