Coordination Failure Quotes

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

How could I possibly have hoped to unite all my dominions when I cannot make these clocks strike the hour together?

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

Even a two-car parade gets fouled up if you don't decide ahead of time who's going to lead.

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.