Laurence J. Peter

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.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

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.

My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.

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

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

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

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.