One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

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.

One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

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.