Norman Ralph Augustine

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If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

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

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

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

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

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

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.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

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

The more one produces, the less one gets.

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.

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.

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

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.

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

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.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

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