Complexity Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson Download Open image “Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.” — C. Northcote Parkinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complexity Decay Expansion
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Complexity can be categorized into two types: combinatorial and dynamic.” — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
“complexity introduced the possibility of greater error and because no working tool needed greater errors.” — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers. — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the… — Christoffer Boe Copy Share Image
I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer because you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie. — Jan de Bont Copy Share Image
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
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