If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.
There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.
Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.
The executive side of you always wants to find the best, most efficient way to do things. Of course, art is extraordinarily inefficient.
Ordering should be the most enjoyable experience, but at McDonald's, it can be one of the most stressful points in time.
The writing of the record didn't take long, because I just have a huge stack of papers and I just pluck from the stack. It took a long time because it's very expensive to make records; in fact, I think it's a complete rip-off.
So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me.
Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.
