Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

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.

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

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

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.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.