Jerome Isaac Friedman Quotes
Excessive bureaucracy is distracting, time-consuming, and destructive to creativity.
The administration and operation of scientific research is particularly vulnerable to bureaucratic processes. There is a constant tension between scientists and politicians over the accountability of publicly funded research.
Jerome Isaac Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Will Innovation Flourish in the Future? American Institute of Physics, 2002
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Jefferson is the hero of the “small government” enthusiasts of modern times. In his day it was the conservative Federalists who wanted a larger government while the Jeffersonians, the radicals of the day argued for smaller government. Jefferson not only favored smaller government, but he actually cut the size of the Federal workforce something which in modern times no president has done except for William Clinton.
Berg, one of the early OSS recruits, was a brilliant loner and somewhat paranoid. His early modus operandi was to work with no partners, never as part of a team, and only report to the head of the agency and a deputy or two and otherwise never reveal where he was or how he did things. Berg however was brilliant and multilingual, and even was able to have discussions with the best Physicist left in Germany--Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg. Berg determined that Heisenberg was not working on an atomic bomb with some clever technical discussions and listening to some of Heisenberg's presentations. Therefore, following his orders, he did not assassinate the German Scientist whuch he was prepared to do. Other than OSS officials, many in America did not believe that the Germans would not have their best scientist working on Nuclear Energy. However, Hitler was biased against what he called "Jewish Sceince" and bet on jet planes. After the war, The CIA reorganized the American espionage effort and there was no place for Berg’s old school style.
He had been appointed by President Nixon to head a "blue ribbon panel to review the Department of Defense and was announcing the conclusions.
Referring to the administrative procedures required of the Navajos by the Bureau of Indian Affairs:
Jerome Isaac Friedman is an American physicist. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Henry Kendall and Richard Taylor, for work showing an internal structure for protons later known to be quarks. Friedman sits on the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
