Inefficiency Quotes

63 quotes by 57 authors

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied… — Nathan Myhrvold
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because… — Nathan Myhrvold
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a… — Pope John Paul II
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social… — Evgeny Morozov
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe.… — Eric Ambler
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its… — Henry David Thoreau
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the… — Theodore Roosevelt
Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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… — Isaac Asimov
The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do… — Michael Lewis
Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than… — Matt Ridley
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from… — Milton Friedman
It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to… — P.J. O'Rourke
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant… — Seth Shostak
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government. — Mitt Romney
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. — Eugene McCarthy
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government. — Tim Murphy
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives… — Paul Hawken
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _old man_. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive… — Ambrose Bierce
In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this… — Richard V. Allen

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