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Law Number Xxxvi: The Thickness Of The Proposal Required To Win A Multimillion Dollar Contract Is About One Millimeter Per Million Dollars. If All The Proposals Conforming To This Standard Were Piled On Top Of Each Other At The Bottom Of The Grand Canyon It Would Probably Be A Good Idea.

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.

The Process Of Competitively Selecting Contractors To Perform Work Is Based On A System Of Rewards And Penalties, All Distributed Randomly.

Soloist Are Inspiring In Opera And Perhaps Even In Small Entreprenurial Ventures, But There Is No Place For Them In Large Corporations.

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.