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.

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

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