Bureaucracy Quote by Jasper Fforde

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

— Barbara Tuchman

“As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and build walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any…

— Ben Aaronovitch

There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity.…

— Leslie Lamport

Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is…

— David Berlinski

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

— Jasper Fforde

“Although technology often leads science in discovery, the philosophy of technology is usually drawn from the scientific philosophy of its time. In our time,…

— Gerald M. Weinberg

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

— Hannah Arendt

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

— James Cook

“There are times when the marvels of scientific advancement expedite our processes, making our lives easier. Modern technology provides machines that can think three…

— Victoria Schwab

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

— Max Weber

The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

— Terry Winograd

“just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset