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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Management

 A camel is a horse designed by a committee. 
 A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. 
 A committee is a group that takes minutes and wastes hours. 
 A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. 
 A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to guarantee the flow of paper. 
 A man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun. 
 A memorandum is not written to inform the reader but to protect the writer. 
 A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on. 
 Always postpone meetings with time-wasting morons. 
 Amand's Law of Management: Everyone is always someplace else. 
 Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held to discuss it. 
 Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. 
 Anything that can be changed will be changed until there is no time left to change anything. 
 At some time in the life cycle of every organisation, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out. 
 Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. 
 Committee: a group of the unfit appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. 
 Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then give it back to them. 
 Dates in the calendar are closer than they appear. 
 Delay is the deadliest form of denial. 
 Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter’s Law into account. 
 I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of Committees. 
 If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change. 
 If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done. 
 If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges. 
 Important letters which contain no errors will develop errors in the mail. Corresponding errors will show up in the duplicate while the Boss is reading it. 
 In any organisation there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. 
 Indecision is the key to flexibility. 
 Law of Probable Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. 
 Management expands to meet the needs of management. 
 Never answer a letter until you get a second one on the same subject from the same person. 
 Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. 
 Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. 
 Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies. 
 Seminars: from “semi” and “arse”, hence, any half-assed discussion. 
 Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. 
 The big-type giveth, and the small-type taketh away. 
 The first myth of management is that it exists. 
 The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group. 
 The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing. 
 The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. 
 The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. 
 There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation. 
 Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them. 
 You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.