The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.