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“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
“When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.”
“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”
“My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.”
“The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.”
“A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.”
“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”
“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”
“The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.”
“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.”
“Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.”
“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”
“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”