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.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

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

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.