The Smaller The Function, The Greater The

Parkinson's Law Is A Purely Scientific Discovery, Inapplicable Except In Theory To The Politics Of The Day. It Is Not The Business Of The Botanist To Eradicate The Weeds. Enough For Him If He Can Tell Us Just How Fast They Grow.

When Any Organizational Entity Expands Beyond 21 Members, The Real Power Will Be In Some Smaller Body.

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.

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 To Discover. No Treasury Official Told Fleming To Discover Penicillin. Nor Was Rutherford Instructed To Split The Atom By A Certain Date.

A Committee Grows Organically, Flourishes And Blossoms, Sunlit On Top And Shady Beneath, Until It Dies, Scattering The Seeds From Which Other Committees Will Spring.