Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.
The unexpected always happens.
When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.
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.
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.