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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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Norman Ralph Augustine
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: July 27
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Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green.
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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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It costs a lot to build bad products
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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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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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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 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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It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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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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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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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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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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By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
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For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
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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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Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
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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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