C. Northcote Parkinson quotes
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
Expenditures rise to meet income.
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.