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 vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

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

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

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

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

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.