75 Quotes by Norman Ralph Augustine

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

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

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

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

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

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

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

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.