Adam D'Angelo Quotes

And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.

Should bureaucratic ways prevail and paper reign supreme? Should red tape and the Status Quo become our nation’s dream?

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it's full of people, who are complicated.

As companies get bigger, they tend to slow down. It's a universal law.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

You know, you try to move the Brussels bureaucracy, and unless you have some capacity to really break it, you can't move it. It just sits there and stares at you.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

All right. Normal rules apply." "Right." The man walked off, leaving us. "What are the normal rules?" I asked. "He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

It's that government bureaucracies crush innovation. We are falling further and further behind in our government.

It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

You just can't get anything done. You can't get hearings, you can't get legislation, you can't get responses by the regulatory agencies - you can't get anything done. I'm a realist. I don't work harder and harder to get less and less.

They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.