Administration Quote by Max Weber

A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision,…

— Max Weber

“Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.”

— Steven Erikson

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

— Donald Rumsfeld

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the…

— Charles Babbage

“It is a principle that, curiously, many top-level managers in the service often failed to grasp. In a truly efficient organization, the allocation of…

— Christopher David Costanzo

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

— Jasper Fforde

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

— Stephen Covey

The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This…

— John Pawson

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

— John Carmack

“Simplicity and straightforwardness proceed from conceptual integrity.”

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“How accurately and functionally”

— Stephen R. Covey