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

- C. Northcote Parkinson

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

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

- C. Northcote Parkinson

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

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

- C. Northcote Parkinson

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

- C. Northcote Parkinson

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 t…

- C. Northcote Parkinson

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busie…

- C. Northcote Parkinson

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

- C. Northcote Parkinson