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It costs a lot to build bad products.

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

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

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

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

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

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

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

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

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

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.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

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.

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

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

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.