Expenditures rise to meet income.

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

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

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

Expenditures rise to meet income.

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.

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.