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• The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. McCARTHY
• Only democracy saves us from the ravages of being animals.
• Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
  -- Mary McCarthy (1912- ) from The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 1958...
• For the skeptic there remains only one consolatio
  if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency....
• The Bureaucracy Principle: Only a bureaucracy can fight a bureaucracy.
• Soper's Law: Any bureaucracy reorganized to enhance efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor.
• Any bureaucracy reorganised to enhance efficiency is immediately indistinguishable from its predecessor.
  -- Soper's Law...
• LISP n. [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue
  a language based on the ideas of (a) variable-length lists and trees as fundamental data types, and (b) the interpretation of code as data and vice-versa....
• JESUS SAVES. The rest of us better make backups.