Home / Library / Quotes / Inverse Proportion Notable Quote "The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved." — Parkinson, C. Northcote event 1958 From Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress Context: From the chapter 'High Finance, or the Point of Vanishing Interest' in Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress (1958) — the core statement of what later became known as the Law of Triviality, or 'bikeshedding.' Topics corporate_fare Bureaucracy psychology Decision Making speed Efficiency