• It costs a lot to build bad products.
• Ninety percent of the time things will turn out worse than you expect. The other 10 percent of the time you had no right to expect so much.
• The optimum committee has no members.
• Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated
• One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
• Bulls do not win bullfights; people do. People do not win people fights; lawyers do.
• 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
• 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.
• The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.
• Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.
• If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
• The weaker the data available on which to base conclusions, the greater the precision which should be quoted to give the data authenticity.
• If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
• The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all your time talking about nothing.
• In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

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