tape quotes

I leapt at the tape like a man taking his last spring to save himself from the chasm that threatens to engulf him.

- Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
  Of the end of his record-breaking run. First Four Minutes.

However many people may complain about the'red tape', it would be sheer illusion to think for a moment that continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices† The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dilettantism in the field of administration.

- Max Weber
  Collected in Guenther Roth and ClausWittich (eds) Economy and Society (1978), ch.3.