“Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.”

Video game commentary, SuperHOT prototype (September 15, 2013)

This is how the iron law of bureaucracy installs itself at the heart of an institution. Most of the activities of any bureaucracy are devoted not to the organization’s ostensible goals, but to ensuring that the organization survives: because if they aren’t, the bureaucracy has a life expectancy measured in days before some idiot decision maker decides that if it’s no use to them they can make political hay by destroying it. It’s no consolation that some time later someone will realize that an organization was needed to carry out the original organization’s task, so a replacement is created: you still lost your job and the task went undone. The only sure way forward is to build an agency that looks to its own survival before it looks to its mission statement. Just another example of evolution in action.
Source: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 16, “Democracy in Action” (pp. 311-312)

Selena at School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRhbKhD4gPI

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Ghost Of Corporate Future
Soviet Kitsch (2004)

Source: The Meaning Of Life, II

Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)

"Llega un momento en la vida en que, haga uno lo que haga, solamente aburre. Queda entonces una manera de recuperar el prestigio: morir."
Source: Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.