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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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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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A billion saved is a billion earned.
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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
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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 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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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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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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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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It costs a lot to build bad products
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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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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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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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