Rules of Bureaucracy

·         Preserve thyself.

·         It is easier to fix the blame than to fix the problem.

·         A penny saved is an oversight.

·         Information deteriorates upward.

·         The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time; the last 10% takes the other 90%.

·         Experience is what you get just after you need it.

·         For any given large, complex, hard-to-understand, expensive problem, there exists at least one short, simple, easy, cheap, wrong answer.

·         Anything that can be changed will be, until time runs out.

·         To err is human; to shrug is civil service.

·         There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.