Parkinson's Law

This old adage explains so much of what happens in our daily life.The law first propounded by Parkinson in 1955, resulted out of his experiences with the British bureaucracy.Consider the following:

• Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
• Data expands to fill the space available for storage.
• The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource.

A second aphorism, attributed to Parkinson and sometimes called "Parkinson's second law", is "Expenditures rise to meet income".A modern version is that no amount of computer automation will reduce the size of a bureaucracy.How True!Some things will never change.