A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

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

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

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

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

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.

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.