Parkinson's Law

Decay begins when the marble palace is completed。

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_Law

He explains this growth by two forces:

(1) "An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals" and

(2) "Officials make work for each other."

He notes in particular that the total of those employed inside a bureaucracy rose by 5-7% per year "irrespective of any variation in the amount of work (if any) to be done."

Mikhail Gorbachev responded that "'Parkinson's Law works everywhere."

the derivative relating to computers:Data expands to fill the space available for storage.

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.

思考:

PARKINSON'S LAW认为人有止步的时候,实际上人是贪婪的，即使没有足够的空间,有没有止步的时候。

PARKINSON'S LAW以前也读过，但是忘记了。这次读了感触很深，可见人有经常重新启蒙的必要，人类更有这个必要。

启蒙和解放思想不太一样，启蒙是学习，通过学习旧的知识而提高思想，解放思想是突破旧的知识。

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