Law Number XXIV: The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established project is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly action known to man.

The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

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.

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

A billion saved is a billion earned.

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.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.