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

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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.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the...

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the...

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...

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

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

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.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

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 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...

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

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

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

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

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...

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

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

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...

That government is best which governs least.

That government is best which governs least.

All government is an ugly necessity.

All government is an ugly necessity.

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official...

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official...