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Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
Expenditure rises to meet income.
Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.
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.
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.
A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.
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.
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date ...
Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.
Expenditures rise to meet income.
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
It is the busiest man who has time to spare.
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.
Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
