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— Jerry Pournelle"Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission."
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Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the bureaucracy and the whole structure of our culture is basically built out of men trying to be legitimate and making things up so they look important.
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