Norman Ralph Augustine Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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

  People, Trying, Literature

• One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Funny, Humor, Expression

• There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Effort, Lazy, Hunters

• Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Weed, Marijuana, Literature

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Needs, Literature, Easy

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Literature, Projects

• 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

  Science, Law, Literature

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Athlete, Artist, Schedules

• 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

  Book, Literature, Products

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Tasks, Literature, More Time

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Should Have, Literature, Unexpected

• Hardware works best when it matters the least.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Literature, Matter, Hardware

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Literature, Problem, Existence

• If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Numbers, Literature, Layers

• 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

  Aggravation, Cost, Degradation

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Needs, Literature, Advertising

• 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

  Twenties, Done, Literature

• 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

  Ears, Literature, Way

• 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

  People, Track, Asking

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

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Doe, Literature, Increase

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