C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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• The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Complexity

• Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Expansion

• You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Life
  • Free
  • You

• We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Desire
  • Public
  • Expansion

• My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Complexity

• Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • History
  • Movie
  • Down

• I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Believe
  • Single
  • I Believe

• Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Mankind
  • Expansion
  • Treason

• Les utopies ne sont souvent que des verités prématurées.

  

  Alphonse de Lamartine

• The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Live
  • History

• I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Free

• The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

  

  Jean Rostand
  • God
  • Quality

• I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be a starving artist. But on the other hand, life is short, and if you are burning with a passion to do something, then do it. Work hard, study hard at it, and don't give up.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• My first proper relationship was at 16 in college.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Relationship
  • College

• I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Good
  • English

• Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • World
  • Remember

• All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Science
  • Past
  • Unknown

• ''Everything is true', he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • True

• The U.S. economy is in the midst of a strong and sustainable economic expansion.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Strong
  • Economy
  • U.S.

• God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Words
  • Quality

• [Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Russia
  • Expansion
  • NATO

• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Song
  • You
  • Band

• We have to consider culture respectfully, but on the other hand, it's dangerous. When we begin talking about cultures, we begin forgetting about individuals. Every individual is unique. Mankind has common feelings and ideas, but we might have some other connections, too. For example, I might be very close to someone in New York in some way. Because of the music I like or how I like to watch soccer games, or because I like to read Russian classics.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Complexity
  • Decay
  • Expansion