Peter Macinnis > Quotes

“There is a remarkably distinctive smell emitted by fearful bureaucrats. It is acrid, rank, and seems to cling to the clothing and the hair. Acting like a pheromone, it drives senior management to form small defensive herds from which to scream homicidally at middle management that they must not tell junior staff who can fix the problem what is going on because everything, including what has just been reported on the radio, is secret.”
― Peter Macinnis, Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean of Calabar

“There is a remarkably distinctive smell emitted by fearful bureaucrats. It is acrid, rank, and seems to cling to the clothing and the hair.”
― Peter Macinnis, The Killer Bean of Calabar and Other Stories