The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

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.

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

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