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

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

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.

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

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

Parkinson's Law is a purely scientific discovery, inapplicable except in theory to the politics of the day. It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.

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