Quotes About Inefficiency

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business.

The practice of writing code in C++ continually upset Cutler because it created so much confusion and inefficiency.

Inefficiency is to be our safeguard against despotism.

I think health care is absolutely ripe. It's an $8 trillion industry, lots of inefficiency in it.

Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

Se colocarmos o Estado para administrar o Deserto do Saara, em 5 anos faltará areia.

A solução do governo para um problema é normalmente tão ruim quanto o próprio problema.

Fat is a small word which belies its size in the girth of its connotations. Fat implies a certain ungainliness, an inefficiency, a sense of immobility, a lack of industry, an unpleasant, unaesthetic quality; unmotivated, unloved, unnatural, unusual, uninspired, unhappy, unlikely to go places or to fit, under the ground with a heart attack at fifty-five. In short, fat somewhat paradoxically involves the lack of many attributes which, you must concede, are generally held to be good.

Socialism is socialism. Government run enterprises are just as inept under democratic governments as they are under autocratic governments.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

The only conspiracy that exists is the conspiracy of incompetence.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.' 

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

Administrators everywhere on the planet, in all businesses and pursuits, and at all times in history, have been the plague.

Simply put, unsavories have a need to despise the system. To facilitate that, I had to create a system worthy of loathing. In reality, there is no actual need for people to take a number, or to wait for long periods of time. There isn't even a need for an intake agent. It's all designed to make unsavories feel as if the system is wasting their time. The illusion of inefficiency serves the specific purpose of creating annoyance around which unsavories can bond. - The Thunderhead

what social scientists call governmentality and what everybody else calls corruption, inefficiency, incompetence, and indifference.

After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)

over-endowed with WOMBATs." (A WOMBAT is a Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time: the non-IT equivalent of a PEBCAK. (A PEBCAK is a Problem that Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. (You get the picture: it's parenthesized despair all the way down.)))

los recursos de una economía se usan ineficientemente cuando existe un monopolio, porque estos recursos estarían siendo transferidos de usos con mayor valor a usos con menor valor.

Mientras que el capitalismo tiene un coste visible —la ganancia— que no existe bajo el socialismo, el socialismo tiene un coste invisible —la ineficiencia— que es erradicado en el capitalismo a través de las pérdidas y la quiebra