C. Northcote Parkinson
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"Cyril Northcote Parkinson" was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar in public administration and management.

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The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

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

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

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

Expenditure rises to meet income.

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

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