“Remember, the inevitable inefficiency of a huge bureaucracy will be working for you.”
Robert Sheckley book The Status Civilization
Source: The Status Civilization (1960), Chapter 20 (p. 84)
“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.”
1940s, The World As I See It (1949)
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Heather Brooke (1970) American journalist
International Journalism Festival http://www.journalismfestival.com/news/heather-brooke-antitrust-legislation-needed-to-keep-the-internet-free/ Interview with Fabio Chiusi, 12 April 2012. <br class="br">Attributed, In the Media
“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
A misquotation of a haiku by Auden found elsewhere on this page ("Thoughts of his own death" etc.)
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Variant: Thoughts of his own death,
like the distant roll
of thunder at a picnic.
“Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon
Source: Blue Moon
“echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.”
Janet Fitch (1955) American writer
Source: Paint it Black
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 13, “Fimbulwinter” (pp. 258-259)
Richard Ebeling (1950) American economist
“Is the ‘Spectre of Communism’ Still Haunting the World?” https://fee.org/resources/is-the-spectre-of-communism-still-haunting-the-world/, speech entitled “Evenings at FEE” in March 2006. Posted in Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), (December 19, 2008)
