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By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Time
Work
People
Answers
Questions
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Infinite
Testing
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.
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Policy
Successful
states
United
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Order
The optimum committee has no members.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Committee
If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Today
Tomorrow
Yesterday
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Law
Nothing
Software
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Hardware
Rank
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Money
People
Possibility
May
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Norman Ralph Augustine
People
Lawyers
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Norman Ralph Augustine
Computer
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Existence
Problems
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Motivation
Talent
Will
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Money