“ The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. ”
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
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.
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
