Laurence J. Peter

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.