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All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#consultants #many #mind #respond #too

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

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#completed #currently #estimated #more #one-third

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#government #government workers #more #states #than

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#business #decreased #does #increased #increases

If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#half #probably #supposed #today #tomorrow

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. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#achieve #cost #degradation #each #expensive

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#available #base #conclusion #data #give

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#covered #earth #headquarters #other #surface

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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