Quotes About Inefficiency

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling—

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

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." -R. Daneel Olivaw

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

The reason why Whitehall is full of people failing in predictable ways on an hourly basis is because, first, there is general system-wide failure and, second, everybody keeps their heads down focused on the particular and they ignore the system.

We didn't get anything done! She looked around vaguely, then wandered along the corridor to the

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.

President Lyndon Johnson once said, "If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it is a bureaucracy." Don

very size and structure of the department assured ponderousness, if not paralysis, because so many different organizations had to be involved in even the smallest decisions.

He attributed the stupidity of Conservatism to its attachment to the hereditary principle. This also explained the inefficiency of many British firms. British capitalism was dominated by third-generation men.

Among the deficiencies common to the Italian and the U.S. postal systems are: - inefficiency, and delays in deliveries - old-fashioned organization - low efficiency and low salaries of personnel - high frequency of strikes - very high operational deficit - Roberto Vacca, The Coming Dark Age

I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for me, I want back every minute I was on hold in traffic jams, and behind people with eleven items in the ten items or less line.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE FUCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?

Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE FUCKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the fuck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?

La primacía de los tontos es insuperable y está garantizada para todas las épocas. El terror de esta tiranía se mitiga por su ineficiencia y sus consecuencias.