> Paraphrased: "complexity expands so as to fill the time available for its consumption" That's a very liberal paraphrasing. Parkinson's law is specifically a

> Paraphrased: "complexity expands so as to fill the time available for its consumption" That's a very liberal paraphrasing. Parkinson's law is specifically about the amount of time that it takes to complete work (by humans, e.g. for a project deadline). If you want to reference something that serves as good commentary about software performance, Wirth's law is right there for the using.