Norman Ralph Augustine
Norman Ralph Augustine
Norman Ralph Augustineis a U.S. aerospace businessman who served as Under Secretary of the Army from 1975 to 1977. Augustine served as chairman of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 July 1935
CountryUnited States of America
Norman Ralph Augustine quotes about
winning law ideas
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.
law two numbers
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
literature projects
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
government united-states workers
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
problem existence has-beens
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
cost degradation unreliability
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.
engineering opposites action
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
teamwork corporations opera
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
successful two america
There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.
math science citizens
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.
fool incumbents
Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.
ears way purses
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
billions saved
A billion saved is a billion earned.
literature needs easy
It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.