For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

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