Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter
Laurence Johnston Peterwas a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 September 1919
CountryCanada
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two people angry
It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.
government hierarchy incompetence
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
ignorance difficult
Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.
choices selfishness being-selfish
You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.
lost poetry-is lost-in-translation
Poetry is that which is lost in translation.
differences advice needs
. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.
children giving rope
Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
egypt moses stills
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
way
Lead, follow or get of the way
unexpected happens
The unexpected always happens.
order climbing ladders
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
cat dark men
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
travel home rust
When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
wit live-by
Many live by their wits but few by their wit.