From Charlie Munger’s “Poor Charlie’s Almanack”
“Man, as a social animal who has the gift of language, is born to prattle and to pour out twaddle that does much damage when serious work is being attempted. Some people produce copious amounts of twaddle and others very little.” (p. 490)
“Well, all my life I’ve been dealing with the human equivalent of that honeybee. And it’s a very important part of wise administration to keep prattling people, pouring out twaddle, far away from serious work.”
“The principal job of an academic administration is to keep the people who don’t matter from interfering with the work of the people that do.”