Quotes By Norman Ralph Augustine

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

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

It costs a lot to build bad products.

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

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.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

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

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

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

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

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

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.

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

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

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

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

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.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

The optimum committee has no members.

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

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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