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

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

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.