The Big Apple: “Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses”

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

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Entry from November 11, 2014

“Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses”

"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses” is a jocular quotation that has been included in many quotations collections. The saying has been cited in print since at least 1993 and is of unknown authorship.

IFindKarma.com
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 14:29:12 -0500
From: Nanci Ann Miller
Subject: Need authors for these!
Lines: 1104
(...)
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

Google Groups: novell.community.chat
I spooed
Boogie Woogie Baritoneboy
10/18/03
(...)
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
Unknown

Google Books
The Freedom Outlaw’s Handbook:
179 Things to Do ‘Til the Revolution
By Claire Wolfe
Boulder, CO: Paladin Press
2007
Pg. 142:
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. — Unknown

Google Books
Juggernaut
By Eric Robert Morse
New Classic Books (NewClassicBooks.com)
2010
Pg. 322:
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. —ANONYMOUS WIT (CIRCA 1980)

Google Books
The Snark Bible:
A Reference Guide to Verbal Sparring, Comebacks, Irony, Insults, and So Much More
Edited by Lawrence Dorfman
New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing
2014
Pg. ?:
Who Knows Who Said It?
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

Twitter
Cameron Morrissey
‏@ManagersDiary
“Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.” --Anonymous #business #leadership
4:28 PM - 2 Nov 2014

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New York City • Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health • Tuesday, November 11, 2014 • Permalink