A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

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

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

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

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