It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

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.

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.

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

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.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.