He coined Parkinson's Law when he noticed that as the British navy shrank, the number of bureaucrats running it continued to grow.
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Parkinson was an amusing old duffer, inventor of Parkinson's Law, which I kinda forget.†
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Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black, 2011
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He coined a law intended to have the humor of a Parkinson's law that "The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite.†
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Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974