“It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.”

“Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.”

“It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.”

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

“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”

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

“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.”

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

“Expenditure rises to meet income.”

“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”