Unimaginative Solutions Quotes

'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Where you have 20 people who all share roughly the same educational and life experiences, they're going to come up with the same solutions to the same problems.

Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.

U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.