Norman Ralph Augustine
Norman Ralph Augustine
Norman Ralph Augustineis a U.S. aerospace businessman who served as Under Secretary of the Army from 1975 to 1977. Augustine served as chairman of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 July 1935
CountryUnited States of America
advice would-be buying
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
family daughter technology
Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."
weed marijuana regulation
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
airplane years law
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.
law numbers talking
Law Number XLVIII: The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all your time talking about nothing.
law time-zones numbers
Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.
successful two america
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.
teamwork corporations opera
Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
engineering opposites action
For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.
produce
The more one produces, the less one gets.
cost degradation unreliability
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.
problem existence has-beens
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
government united-states workers
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
should-have unexpected has-beens
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.