“Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.”
The Time of the Hero (1963)
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Mario Vargas Llosa 30
Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist 1936Related quotes
about 1900, page 429
John of the Mountains, 1938
“Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.”
“Politics is absolutely hopeless. That’s why everything has gone wrong.”
From 1980s onwards, Norie Huddle interview (1981)
Context: This is not a visible revolution and it is not political. You’re dealing with the invisible world of technology.
Politics is absolutely hopeless. That’s why everything has gone wrong. You have ninety-nine percent of the people thinking “politics,” and hollering and yelling. And that won’t get you anywhere. Hollering and yelling won’t get you across the English Channel. It won’t reach from continent to continent; you need electronics for that, and you have to know what you’re doing. Evolution has been at work doing all these things so it is now possible. Nobody has consciously been doing it. The universe is a lot bigger than you and me. We didn’t invent it. If you take all the machinery in the world and dump it in the ocean, within months more than half of all humanity will die and within another six months they’d almost all be gone; if you took all the politicians in the world, put them in a rocket, and sent them to the moon, everyone would get along fine.
“In the war on terror we did everything wrong that we could have done.”
Radio interview (November 2008)
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 3, p. 681