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

Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.

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.

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.

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

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.