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