Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

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

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

If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

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

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

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.