Norman Ralph Augustine

Author

1935-07-27

Quotes by Norman Ralph Augustine

• 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.

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• If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

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• Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

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• 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.

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• Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

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• Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

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• The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

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