One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
More Quotes from Norman Ralph Augustine:
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.Norman Ralph Augustine
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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
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
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.
Norman Ralph Augustine
A billion saved is a billion earned.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.Anne Tyler
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
William Godwin
In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
Ellsworth Huntington