C. northcote parkinson

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

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...

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

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.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.