NORMAN R. 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.

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

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

The more one produces, the less one gets.

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

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

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

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

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

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

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

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

It costs a lot to build bad products.

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

The optimum committee has no members.

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

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.

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.

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.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

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

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

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.

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