Law Number XXIV: The only ...

Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.
Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.
 Norman Ralph Augustine

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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.
 Norman Ralph Augustine
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
 Norman Ralph Augustine
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
 Norman Ralph Augustine
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
A billion saved is a billion earned.
 Norman Ralph Augustine