"In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]"

-- Jerry Pournelle

#Law Quotes #People Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.”
“I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.”
“It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.”
“As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.”
“Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.”
“Perhaps I'm just optimistic.”

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“I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made”
“The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.”

Source : "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

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