"The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases." -- Jerry Brown, 1973
Alfi: And nothing's changed despite all the nifty technology.

"As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse." -- Art Buchwald

"All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." -- Samuel Butler

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Alfi (THIALFI) said...

"The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases." -- Jerry Brown, 1973

This is stolen from Parkinison's Law:

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. A proverb coined by the twentieth-century British scholar C. Northcote Parkinson, known as Parkinson's Law.

Jenifer (Zarknorph) said...

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"To be is to do." -- Socrates

"To do is to be." -- Plato

"Dooby dooby do." -- Frank Sinatra

ha

I think it would be harder for him to wipe his butt

I'm very familiar with Parkinson's Law, and this is likely an offshoot of it, but it is different.