Favourite Quotations, Part I

"We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising - and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, ineffeciency and demoralisation.

"General Gaius Petronius Pontius Nigrinus, consul, 37 AD and governor of Aegyptus.


Why? I work in the government. Need I say more?

Originally published in November 2005.