Norman R. Augustine - Time Quotes

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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

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Law Number XXX: By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

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Law Number XI: 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.

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Law Number XXXVII: Ninety percent of the time things will turn out worse than you expect. The other 10 percent of the time you had no right to expect so much.

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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.

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Law Number XXIII: Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

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Law Number XLVIII: The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all your time talking about nothing.

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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.

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Law Number LI: By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

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