Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it’s easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

Found at http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/.

Comments

[I Need Money Desperately]

They have a point. Thanks for sharing this one man.

[Falsefalse]

Off topic.

Could you please add "Consolas" before the "Courier New" to the font stack you use for displaying code on Pastie? It will please Win7/Vista guys a lot.

Thanks

[sebastian]

Great quote.

By the way... isn't elegant designs the only weapon we had to combat complexity?

[purefovmew]

Hi Josh. I know this is kind of random but i would like to ask you one question about this particular code you posted.

Sorry for the above comment. Please ignore it. Some typo errors.

http://pastie.org/pastes/981474
In this link, line 114, under the generate random letters section, why did you use 21 instead of 26? I thought normally we multiply by 26 because we got 26 characters? So my question is why did you use 21?

Hope to receive your reply as soon as possible. Thank you.