Jed S. Rakoff

I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.

American Judge

David Chipperfield

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

British Architect

Mitt Romney

I love cars; I like the idea of manufacturing something, having a product, a hard product to sell and promote, but as time went on, I recognized that car companies are so bureaucratic and so ossified that it would take forever to work your way up. And so I went into consulting.

American Politician

Ralph Hall

As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

Scott Cook

If you give the boss all the decision-making power, they see the world through their eyes. The big innovations are generally such a shift that they won't see it. For a long time, it looked like it was just inevitable that you would get slow and bureaucratic.

American Businessman

Sam Taylor-Johnson

My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.

English Director

Tom Peters

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

Max Weber

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

German Economist

Jay Inslee

Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.

Marshall McLuhan

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

Canadian Sociologist

Indicates an environment where rules override personal input, usually perceived negatively.

Impersonality

Suggests a tendency for unnecessary complexity and details that may be overwhelming.

Overcomplexity

Often related to slow or hindered progress due to excessive regulations.

Inefficiency

Evokes feelings of irritation due to the delays caused by paperwork and formalities.

Frustration

Refers to excessive formalities and procedures often associated with government actions.

Red tape

Can suggest intentional stalling through bureaucractic methods.

Delaying Tactics

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Who owns the "wilderness"...

 Can you imagine, in the bureaucratic world of yesteryear, getting anything done in a four-month period of time? You can barely fill out the forms in that amount of time, let alone generate real, palpable innovations that improve people's lives. And I want to be clear to mention that this open government

Beth Noveck: Demand a...

 They worked with us and tried to keep any bureaucratic delays down to the smallest amount possible. And I think that's what's going to be important here, is we have to look at every single step and say, "Is it critical?" But you do need to answer a lot of these questions.

The quest for the...

 or your service doesn't have to go through a huge bureaucratic system to get it fixed. It also affords us cheap fabrication, which is fantastic, so it means that you can do a lot more with it. And then, the most important thing is, it gives us large math for low cost.

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Demand a more...

 I admired his passionate obstinacy, his determination to push through all the bureaucratic red tape to get to work, and he laughed, and he said, "I'm stubborn, but I think what's more important is my passionate optimism."

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Howard Rheingold:...

 within a very bureaucratic to take charge, to empower people to run with an idea and build a community of support around that and do it regardless of whether or not you had official support.

The creative power of...

 We need governments to accelerate reunification applications, and we need them to address the bureaucratic and political barriers to reunification for families all over the world.

Elizabeth Zion: The need...

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Bureaucratic