The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

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

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.

No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law to discover. No Treasury official told Fleming to discover penicillin. Nor was Rutherford instructed to split the atom by a certain date.

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

Expenditure rises to meet income.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."