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.

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.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

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

Law Number XXXII: Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.

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

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