C. Northcote Parkinson

“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.”

“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”

“The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.”

“A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.”

“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.”

“Expansion means complexity, and complexity decay.”