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Norman R. Augustine
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 R. Augustine
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.
Norman R. 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 R. Augustine
Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
Norman R. Augustine
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
Norman R. Augustine
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
Norman R. Augustine
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
Norman R. Augustine
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
Norman R. Augustine
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Norman R. Augustine
One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.