"The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."
— Bureaucracy

January 1, 1970

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C. Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration (1957), p. 24. (popularly known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality)