The optimum committee has no members.
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.
Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
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.
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
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.
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.
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.
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.
There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
The more one produces, the less one gets.
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
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.
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.
Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.
