Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
--Honore de Balzac
Bureaucracy is nothing more than the hardening of an
organization's arteries.
--William P. Anthony
Alice, you'd get more accomplished if you were
less of a perfectionist. I've asked Wally to
work with you - to teach you how to be less perfect.
--Dilbert's Pointy Haired Boss
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly,
without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in
every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life,
in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.
--Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) Polish-German socialist, writer
This little box will be your home for sixty hours a week.
It comes with an obsolete computer and a binder about safety hazards.
Your challenge is to look busy until someone gives you a meaningful assignment.
--Dilbert
You know we don't allow anything on cubicle walls.
It destroys the acoustic absorption of the fabric.
--Dilbert's Pointy Haired Boss
We're taking away your individual cubicles.
In the new system you'll sign up for whatever cube is open that day.
It's based on the model of public restrooms. But I call it 'hoteling'
because it increases my chances of getting tips.
Each cubicle will have a computer, a chair, and
a roll of note paper . . . Take one and pass it around.
--Dilbert's Pointy Haired Boss
It's so exciting to visit my son's cubicle! I worked hard to
put you through college. Now I'll see the results of my investment.
Um...You did attend classes, right?
--Dilbert's Mom
Ah, sweet cubicle. I have returned from my trip.
It's just like being in the womb.
--Dilbert
I found some numbers that support your strategic plan.
I had to take the square root of a negative number to do it.
The timeline is on this mobius strip.
--Dilbert
I had to make some optimistic assumptions to meet the
revenue target In week three, we're visited by an alien
named D'utox Inag who offers to share his advanced technology.
--Dilbert
Next week, a doctor with a flashlight shows us where
sales projections come from.
--Dilbert
Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.
He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust
where he ought not.
--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is
inefficiency An efficient bureaucracy is the
greatest threat to liberty.
--Eugene McCarthy
Government employees (Bureaucrats) like to solve problems.
If there are no problems handily available,
they will create their own problems.
--George Van Valkenburg
Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times.
--George Van Valkenburg
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