Norman Ralph Augustine famous quotes

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Fighting #Winning #People

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Fitness #Motivation #Talent

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Expression #Literature #Computer

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Bird #Worms #Early Bird

A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Prayer #Men #Marketing

Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Obfuscation

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

#Cost #Degradation #Unreliability

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Engineering #Opposites #Action

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

#Teamwork #Opera #Venture

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.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Successful #Two #America

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

#Rewards #Penalties #Process

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

#Mind #Euthanasia

Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its citizens.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Math #Science #Citizens

It costs a lot to build bad products
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Inspiration #Cost

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Fool

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

#Years #Three #Cost

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

#Done #Earth #Twenties

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

#Purses #Ears #Way

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Two #Water #Auditors

A billion saved is a billion earned.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Billions

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Doe #Increase #Overhead

It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Literature #Needs #Easy

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

#Literature #Projects

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Problem #Existence

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

#Government #United States #Workers

The more one produces, the less one gets.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Produce

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Doe #Intimidation #Intimidating

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 #Layers #Literature

Hardware works best when it matters the least.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Matter #Literature #Hardware

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

#Literature #Tasks #More Time

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

The optimum committee has no members.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Inspiration #Members #Committees

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

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

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.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Order #Data #Giving

If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Needs #Advertising

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Dog #Pet #Hungry

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Yesterday #Today #Half

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Unexpected #Should #Expected

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Weed #Marijuana #Regulation

Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Family #Daughter #Technology

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 #May

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Simple #Infinite #Testing

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

#Track #People #Asking

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Effort #Lazy #Hunters

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

#Advice #Would Be #Buying