Quotes About Inefficiency

We need structures that don't squash flexibility and creativity but minimize inefficiency and confusion.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

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

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.

I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.

The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.

If you don't like going to the DMV, imagine if the only place you could go to resolve a health care problem is some government agency.

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.