A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. -- Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won´t. -- Hyman Rickover
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can´t take part. And you´ve got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you´ve got to make it stop. -- Mario Savio, (1943-1996)
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