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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| "Bureaucracy is the enemy of innovation." -- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments | |
| "Any news from the President on a successor?" he asked hopefully. "None," Anita replied. "She's having great difficulty finding someone qualified who is willing to accept the post." "Then I stay," said Dr. Fresh. "I'm not good for much, but I can at least make a decision." "Somewhere," he grumphed, "there must be a naive, opportunistic young welp with a masochistic streak who would like to run the most up-and-down bureaucracy in the history of mankind." -- R.L. Forward, "Flight of the Dragonfly" | |
| Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called "Bureaucracy". Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses. | |
| The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy. | |
| bureaucracy, n: A method for transforming energy into solid waste. | |
| Magary's Principle: When there is a public outcry to cut deadwood and fat from any government bureaucracy, it is the deadwood and the fat that do the cutting, and the public's services are cut. | |
| Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing. | |
| Parkinson's Fifth Law: If there is a way to delay in important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it. | |
