Norman Ralph Augustine

“People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.”

“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.”

“A billion saved is a billion earned.”

“The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.”

“It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.”

“Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.”

“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 authenticity.”

“Hardware works best when it matters the least.”

“By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.”

“People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.”

“It costs a lot to build bad products.”

“Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.”

“By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.”

“If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.”

“One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.”

“Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.”

“Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.”

“One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.”

“The optimum committee has no members.”

“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”