Randall Munroe Quotes

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

There's something about dealing with government agencies that makes you feel like a criminal.

When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done or to start a business, and people are quite frustrated about this.

The Navajo Nation spends most of its time jumping through hoops.

Superfluous bureaucracies and the system of file-keeping and paper-shuffling that is enforced by them … are totally alien to Islam

I can see how paperwork and foolishness can destroy something.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Paperwork will ruin any military force.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

We can get rid of red tape.

I've worked in a few sort of 'institutional' theaters - the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England - and they're hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

Government regulation is not a dangerous usurpation of your Constitutional rights. It's just a pain in the ass.

Should bureaucratic ways prevail and paper reign supreme? Should red tape and the Status Quo become our nation’s dream?

A hospital ought to be a house of healing, not a monument to paperwork and bureaucracy.

I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.

Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down.

Federal rules and regulations too often become seemingly insurmountable obstacles to simple changes that can have a positive impact.

We've got a very poor record on unnecessary red tape; extra cost to business; people being asked to do things they don't need to; over the top regulation, misinterpreted regulation, poor guidelines.

When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.