Inefficient System Quotes

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

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

Our government wasn't created to be efficient. It was created to preserve the individual.

The film project has been “twenty years of constipation,” and he likens the Hollywood process to “trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.”

In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They're a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They're a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.

A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.

We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.

I love being British but our railways are shocking. We are so inured to how appalling our railways are. And the idea in almost any other country in the world that leaves on the line would be a problem!

Its inefficient, its ineffective and its fundamentally unfair.

But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.

A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs.