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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It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
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The reason crime doesn't pay is that when it does, it is called a more respectable name.
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
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A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
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My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
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Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
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Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.