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Human bureaucracies, and most alien ones, are slow by design, their response times slowed to a crawl despite all the technologies we employ to make their progress visible to the naked eye. That’s because they’re still subject to all the delays native to organic life: the mistakes, indecision, the malice, the covering of asses, and the reluctance to transmit even the most urgent message until after a leisurely break for lunch.

— Adam-Troy Castro Emissaries From the Dead (2008)

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Assassination is just diplomacy by other means.

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Management’s never been interested in really doing the job, not at any point in human history. Management’s true agenda has always been making things more pleasant for Management.

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It occurred to me a long time ago, Mr. Lastogne, that diplomacy has very little to do with making friends.

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Middle management has always favored underlings friendly to middle management. It’s corruption, all right, but of a minor and probably unavoidable sort.

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Life with too many miracles is just another form of chaos.

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