"Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee."
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"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."
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"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."
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"The more one produces, the less one gets."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated."
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"One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried."
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"Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction."
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"Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off."
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"Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax."
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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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"The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly."
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"The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic."
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"Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds."
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"It's easy to get a loan unless you need it."
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"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 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 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."
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"People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again."
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