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/ XVI:                                                                            \
|         In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one      |
|         aircraft.  This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and    |
|         Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be     |
|         made available to the Marines for the extra day.                        |
| XVII:                                                                           |
|         Software is like entropy.  It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing,    |
|         and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics, i.e., it always increases.  |
| XVIII:                                                                          |
|         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.                                           |
| XIX:                                                                            |
|         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.           |
| XX:                                                                             |
|         In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding      |
|         approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the       |
|         administration requests -- minus 4-percent tax.                         |
\                 -- Norman Augustine                                             /
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