C. Northcote Parkinson

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

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

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

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

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.