Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes - Page 3

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• Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.

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  Law, Time Zones, Numbers

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• Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

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  Airplane, Years, Law

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• 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.

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  Ears, Literature, Way

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• 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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  Successful, Two, America

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• A billion saved is a billion earned.

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  Billions, Saved

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• Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.

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  Teamwork, Opera, Venture

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

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  Literature, Projects

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• The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

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  Years, Three, Cost

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• The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

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  Rewards, Process, Penalties

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

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  Athlete, Artist, Schedules

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• Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

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  Average, Law, Numbers

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• Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.

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  Years, Law, Numbers

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