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

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

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

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

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.

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.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.