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.

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....
After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes.
There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight....
Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year -- in either direction.
-- Augustine's Law Number XXXIX -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
It costs a lot to build bad products. -- Augustine's Law Number XII -- Norman R.
Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
There are no lazy veteran lion hunters. -- Augustine's Law Number III -- Norman R.
Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
A billion saved is a billion earned. -- Augustine's Law Number XLVI -- Norman R.
Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.
-- Augustine's Law Number XXVIII -- Norman R. Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds. -- Augustine's Law Number XLIX -- Norman R.
Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...
The optimum committee has no members. -- Augustine's Law Number XXXI -- Norman R.
Augustine, President and CEO, Martin Marietta...