It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

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

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.

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

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

Expenditure rises to meet income.

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.