Rigid Rules Quotes

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept..

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future.

I'm pretty OCD. I like to fine-tune every single detail. I think that's a habit built maybe from me being OCD.

It is easy to sacrifice the substantial interests of society by a strict adherence to ordinary rules.

Feng shui isn't open to interpretation.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'

He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered me, as he wanted me to live a normal life. No film magazines were allowed at home, and we weren't allowed to watch any movies.

When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.

People are so codified - it's sad.

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

This is why I hate governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by the fine print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia. The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically, it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is about.