Norman Augustine Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Norman Augustine
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“Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.”
Sports Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Hardware works best when it matters the least.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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