"Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters."
"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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Source: Augustine's Laws. Book by Norman Ralph Augustine, 1983.
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