Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes
- People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
- The optimum committee has no members.
- 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…
- Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
- Hardware works best when it matters the least.
- If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
- Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data…
- If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
- A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
- There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
- By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
- Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
- People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
- 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…
- Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.