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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

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but…

— Jacques Barzun

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

— Robert Conquest

Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“It also seems like common sense that good production management involves keeping every employee busy and every machine fully utilized, to justify the capital…

— James P. Womack

“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

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

— Robert Heller

“In practice, even in the simplest organizations, the industrial “speed” is not homogeneous across the enterprise.”

— Pearl Zhu

All companies have a culture, some companies have discipline, but few companies have a culture of discipline. When you have disciplined people, you don't…

— James C. Collins

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Almost everything is like a machine.

— Ray Dalio