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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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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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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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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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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 XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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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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The more one produces, the less one gets.
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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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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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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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