Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.