People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

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 XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

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

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

It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.