“A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.”

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Source: Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957), p. 60; cited in: Craig Calhoun (2012), Contemporary Sociological Theory, p. 254

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British naval historian 1909–1993

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