James D. Mooney (1931), cited in: Guy Kimberley Hutt (1990), Organizational decentralization and delegation in large New York. p. 1
“The only reason I've managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people.”
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Public Talks, Larry Wall Speaks at Google (2008)
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Source: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 31, “Taglios: a Boot-Camp City” (p. 165)

The End of State http://www.gov.am/files/docs/217.pdf
2008

“Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way”

2006-10-22
Where they stand
Anchorage Daily News
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2008-10-23
2008-09-01
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Posed question: Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?
2006

This might be a paraphrase of some of Locke's expressions or ideas, but the earliest publication of the statement in this form seems to be one made in Oversight Hearing on the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act (1997).
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Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Chapter VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 268.

To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.
The incorporation of a bank, and the powers assumed by this bill, have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States, by the Constitution... They are not among the powers specially enumerated...
Opinion against the constitutionality of a National Bank (1791), also quoted in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson "Memorial Edition" (20 Vols., 1903-04) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. 3, p. 146
1790s

" Whodunit? Who Meddled With Out Democracy? https://www.unz.com/imercer/whodunit-who-meddled-with-our-democracy/" February 8, 2018, The Unz Review.
2010s, 2018
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 11 (p. 440)