The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
C. Northcote ParkinsonMake the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote ParkinsonNo 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.
C. Northcote Parkinson