By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

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

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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them.

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Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

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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.

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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.

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If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.

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