“America is a nation of builders. We built the Empire State Building in just one year – isn't it a disgrace that it can now take ten years just to get a permit approved for a simple road?”— Donald Trump, cnbc.com
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of governm…”— Hannah Arendt, nybooks.com
“Blackwater's dedication to efficiency formed the cornerstone of our entire corporate culture. It was perhaps the ultimate benefit of our streamlined hierarchy: The company had one owner— me— so no stockholders to answer to. There was no board of directors to argue with, and no interminable bureaucra…”— Erik Prince, amazon.com
“Organizations become bureaucratic as soon as people define their job around a specific rule, or feature, rather than a goal. For example, if you tell me my job is to cook the french fries, I will resist anything that threatens the existence of french fries, since when they go away, so does my job. B…”— Scott Berkun, amazon.com
“Nature just decided, 'Okay, if I want to get conscious, I'm gonna need technology to do it because these people don't have clear enough minds to use telepathy. They are too cluttered.' Technology is an extension of nature, but people don't see it that way.”— Jody Radzik, amazon.com
“Chaos is the way that nature reasserts herself into our attempts at organization and control, especially when those efforts are intentionally oppressive.”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com