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

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.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes fussy about filing, keen on seeing that pencils are sharpened, eager to ensure that the windows are open (or shut) and apt to use two or three different-colored inks.

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.