Bureaucracy is like cholesterol, there is the good one and the bad one. Good bureaucracy is a blessing, but bad bureaucracy clogs arteries, clogs hearts and kills. Although Albert Einstein is famous for having constructed excellent scientific theories, what he was really good at was sarcasm, with which he reached prodigious levels of quality – on a par with our Quevedo, or Dr. House. When he was a professor in Prague, he dedicated to the university bureaucracy a splendid phrase that is almost as good as his theories of relativity:
You keep filling out papers for even the most insignificant rubbish; it’s like a never-ending diarrhoea of ink.
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