Quotes By Norman Ralph Augustine
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
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
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
Norman Ralph Augustine
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.
Norman Ralph Augustine
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
Norman Ralph Augustine
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Norman Ralph Augustine