People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing.
Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
Law Number XVI: 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.
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
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.
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'
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.
It costs a lot to build bad products
Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
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."
Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.
If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.
