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.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

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.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

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.