The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively. - Laurence J. Peter

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Man must realize that improvement of the quality of experience is more important than the acquisition of useless artifacts and material possessions.

It is true that work can expand to fill the time allotted but it can expand far beyond that. It can expand beyond the life of the organization and the company can go bankrupt, a government can fall, a civilization can crumble into barbarism, while the incompetents work on.