By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
Norman Ralph AugustineLaw Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.
Norman Ralph AugustineFor every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
Norman Ralph AugustineIf 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.
Norman Ralph AugustineToo often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."
Norman Ralph Augustine