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Norman Ralph Augustine

"Hardware works best when it matters the least."

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"Hardware works best when it matters the least."

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"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."
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"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."
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"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."
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"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."
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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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