Norman Ralph Augustine's Quotes

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

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

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

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

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

The more one produces, the less one gets.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

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.

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.

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.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

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.'

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.