Quotes About Inefficiency

Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

But meanwhile it's much easier to be an intellectual child or lunatic or beast than a harmonious adult man. That's why (among other reasons) there's such a demand for higher education. The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public-house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.

There was something called liberalism (...) Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

One of the hardest areas is duplication; everyone knows there's lots of duplication in government. But when you ask someone, 'OK, name two programs that are duplicative,' typically there's a long pause.

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

Reducing the damage from waste might require expanding the traditional definition of waste - not just as old-fashioned garbage, but as a result of wild inefficiency in all kinds of systems, which often results in emissions of greenhouse gases, among other problems.

Dinosaurs have a bad public image as symbols of obsolescence and hulking inefficiency; in political cartoons they are know-nothing conservatives that plod through miasmic swamps to inevitable extinction.

You're worse than evil. You're inefficient .

Carry on. Remember, I want maximum inefficiency, incompetence, and error. On the Vervani channels, that is. You've worked with trainees, surely. Be creative.

Government by committee! Everyone pulling their own way! You can only react, never prepare!

Croma staff officers, it seemed, liked to make things unnecessarily complicated just as human ones did.

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

Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

In fact, among the people I met, the term soviet served essentially as a synonym for 'fucked up'. I'd been in the country about three days when a car that was sent to take me to an interview failed to start. After several attempts to get it going, the driver turned to me, smiled wearily and explained: 'Soviet car'. By that time, that was all the explanation I needed.

Year after year, sprawl shows itself to be hugely inefficient and a money-loser for local governments. Town halls scramble to get more tax revenue to pay for the schools and the water and sewer pipes extending to the new development, often by welcoming in big-box strip malls and office parks. But the books never balance, and the result is higher taxes, busted budgets, and more unsustainable sprawl.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

TSA is such low-hanging fruit. I mean, anybody can bash the TSA.

Bureaucracy elevates conformity, make that 'elevates fatal stupidity', to the status of religion.

The plodding, self-important language of government enraged him.

A top-heavy bureaucracy the electorate cannot touch always expands to the system's limits of energy.