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. — 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
