I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing2 sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams
A conference is a gathering3 of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency4, and demoralization. -- Petronius Arbiter5, 210 B.C.
Meetings are an addictive6, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually7 engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat8 scorned. -- Milton Friedman
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won t. -- Hyman Rickover
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious9, makes you so sick at heart, you can t take part. And you ve got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus10, and you ve got to make it stop. -- Mario Savio,
