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C. Northcote Parkinson

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

Blessing , Progress , Boredom

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" Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

Work , Law , Firsts

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

Work , Law , Numbers

" Delay is the deadliest form of denial. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

Denial , Procrastination , Political

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

Communication , Poison

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

Numbers

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

Men , Opportunity , Decision

" Expenditure rises to meet income. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

Income , Inspirational

" 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. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

Ignorance , Law , Kings

" 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. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

Law , Mean

" The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

Poison

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

Decision , Important , Delay

" 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. "

C. Northcote Parkinson

Time , Discovery , Perfect

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