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• It is never clear just how many hands or minds are needed to carry out a particular process.
  Nevertheless, anyone having supervisory responsibility for the completion of the task will invariably protest that his staff is too small for the assignment....
• Completion of any task within the allocated time and budget does not bring credit upon the performing personnel- it merely proves the task was easier than expected.
  Failure to complete any task within the allocated time and budget proves the task was more difficult than expected and requires promotion for those in charge....
• Extended Epstein-Heisenberg Principle In an R & D orbit, only 2 of the existing 3 parameters can be defined simultaneously.
  The parameters are: task, time and resources ($...
• It's only gone wrong because of heavy cuts in staff and budget which have streched supervisory resources beyond the limit.
  -- The Comprehensive Schools excuse...
• If one knows what the task is, and there is a time limit allowed for the completion of the task, then one cannot guess how much it will cost.
• The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum
  echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command....
• Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
• Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. -- Parkinson's First Law
• Kinkler's First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority.