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 XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

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

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'