Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

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 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.

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