Similar: https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html

> 39. Any exploration program which "just happens" to include a new launch vehicle is, de facto, a launch vehicle program.

> 39. (alternate formulation) The three keys to keeping a new human space program affordable and on schedule:

> 1) No new launch vehicles.

> 2) No new launch vehicles.

> 3) Whatever you do, don't develop any new launch vehicles.