Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

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.

Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world