Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.

Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

A billion saved is a billion earned.

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.