Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

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.

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

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

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.