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

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

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.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

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.