"...to regulate everything from a single center, in a uniform manner, governments are lost, drowned in details..."

http://www.west86th.bgc.bard.edu/articles/the-administration-of-things.html

The Administration of Things: A Genealogy

May 21, 2012
Ben Kafka

This article traces the history of the radical idea of an “administration of things” from its origins in utopian socialism to the present.1

"“By trying to regulate everything, and to regulate everything from a single center, in a uniform manner, governments are lost, drowned in details.”13 The more the state tried to accomplish, the more paperwork it produced, and the more paperwork it produced, the more it “drowned in details.” In other words, the state was limited by the very medium of communication on which it relied. It would thus have to make a choice—a political choice—about priorities."