Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.

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

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

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.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

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

Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.