The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.