Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

Law 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.

Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

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

If 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.