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

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

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.