Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Quote by C Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Complexity Quotes

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they...

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they...

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some...

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some...

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing...

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing...

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is...

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is...

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

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

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item...

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item...

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure...

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure...

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess...

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess...

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard...

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard...

Convenience too often trumps security, but complexity trumps even best effort.

Convenience too often trumps security, but complexity trumps even best effort.

I want someone that understands me and all of my complexity.

I want someone that understands me and all of my complexity.

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over...

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over...