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.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

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

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

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.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.