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

— Laurence J. Peter Peter's Almanac (1982)

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

The Peter Principle (1969)

On second thought, maybe the atheist cannot find God, for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)

Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)

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

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

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