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.

The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing.

If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.