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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.
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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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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By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
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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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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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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 XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
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Hardware works best when it matters the least.
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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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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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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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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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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
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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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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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It costs a lot to build bad products
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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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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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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
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