C. Northcote Parkinson

"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative, He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself."

"The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."

"It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow."

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion... Politicians and taxpayers have assumed that a rising total in the number of civil servants must reflect a growing volume of work to …"

"Delay is the deadliest form of denial."

"A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."

"Expansion means complexity, and complexity decay."