Bureaucrats Quote by Henry Spencer Download Open image “To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.” — Henry Spencer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bureaucrats Committees Design Err is human Humans Politics Screws
To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential. . . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing. — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.' — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“To err is human, to accept full responsibility is to just run with it” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that they can… — Josh Barnett Copy Share Image
We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact. — Donald Berwick Copy Share Image
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
If I must be ruled by larcenous bullies, I much prefer that they be located far away. Local bullies know far more about me… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
“8th Commandment: "Thou shalt make thy program's purpose and structure clear to thy fellow man by using the One True Brace Style, even if… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else. — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau. — Hugh S. Johnson Copy Share Image
The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image