Keyword: Bureaucracy

Only a bureaucracy can fight a bureaucracy.

Murphy’s Laws

Typesetters always correct intentional errors, but fail to correct unintentional ones.

Murphy’s Laws

Bureaucracy: A system that enables ten men to do the work of one.

Definitions Government

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

(1879 – 1972) U.S. governor (South Carolina)
Government Life

The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

Communism is like one big phone company.

(1923 – 1966) stand-up comedian, writer, social critic & satirist
Government

A giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

(1799 – 1850) French novelist & playwright
Government

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

(1932 – 2009) U.S. senator (Massachusetts)
People

The organization of any bureaucracy is very much like a septic tank. The really big chunks always rise to the top.

Murphy’s Laws

If anything can go wrong, it will do so in triplicate.

Government Murphy’s Laws Problems

The spirit of public service will rise, and the bureaucracy will multiply itself much faster, in time of grave national concern.

Government Murphy’s Laws

To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it's a bureaucracy.

Murphy’s Laws

In a bureaucracy, accomplishment is inversely proportional to the volume of paper used.

Murphy’s Laws

In a bureaucracy, good ideas go to too far.

Murphy’s Laws

Any bureaucracy reorganized to enhance efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor.

Murphy’s Laws

You should have seen it when I got it.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

In a bureaucratic hierarchy, the higher up the organization the less people appreciate Murphy's Law.

Murphy’s Laws

Give a civil servant a good cause and he’ll wreck it with cliches, bad punctuation, double negatives and convoluted apology.

(1928 – 1999) British politician & diarist
Occupations People Work

1. When in charge ponder
2. When in trouble delegate
3. When in doubt mumble.

Murphy’s Laws Speech

If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.

Murphy’s Laws