Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

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.

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.

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.

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.