An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. - Laurence J. Peter

the ability to charm, to amuse, to inflame a crowd of ten thousand voters with voice and gesture did not necessarily carry with it the ability to think sensibly, to debate soberly and to vote wisely on the nation’s business.

In most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.

super-incumbent,” who is “a person above you who, having reached his level of incompetence, blocks your path to promotion”).