Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

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.

Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.