Cyril Northcote Parkinson
(1909 - 1993)
British historian.
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Science Quotes by Cyril Northcote Parkinson (4 quotes)
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
— Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Parkinson's Law or the Pursuit of Progress1 (1958), 4.
Parkinson's Second Law: Expenditure rises to meet income.
— Cyril Northcote Parkinson
The Law and the Profits (1960), 3.
Parkinson's Third Law: Expansion means complexity, and complexity decay.
— Cyril Northcote Parkinson
In Laws and Outlaws (1962), 168.
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.
— Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Parkinson's Law or the Pursuit of Progress (1958), 15.