Norman Ralph Augustine
At Human Space Flight Review Committee meeting, Washington City, 17 June 2009. NASA photo by Paul E. Alers
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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. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - Augustine's Laws (1983) - Law Number XXXI: The optimum committee has no members. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - Augustine's Laws (1983) - Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - Augustine's Laws (1983) - Law Number XXXIII: Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - Augustine's Laws (1983) - Law Number XXXIV: The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - Augustine's Laws (1983) - Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - Augustine's Laws (1983) - Law Number XXXV: 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. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - Augustine's Laws (1983) - 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. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - Augustine's Laws (1983) - 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. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - Augustine's Laws (1983) - Law Number XXXVIII: The early bird gets the worm. The early worm ... gets eaten. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - Augustine's Laws (1983) - Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation. permalink
Norman R. Augustine - The optimum committee has no members. permalink
Norman R. Augustine
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