Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars.… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
