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

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

A billion saved is a billion earned.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

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

Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.