Quotes by Laurence Peter

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

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

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

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

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the person who will get the blame.

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

A man convinced against his will is not convinced.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.