23. The schedule you develop will seem like a complete work of fiction up until the time your customer fires you for not meeting it.27. Schedules only move in one direction.29. To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right.39. The three keys to keeping a new manned space program affordable and on schedule: 1) No new launch vehicles. 2) No new launch vehicles. 3) Whatever you do, don't decide to develop any new launch vehicles.