In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

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

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

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.

When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?