Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

— Laurence J. Peter

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

— Laurence J. Peter

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

— Laurence J. Peter

Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

— Laurence J. Peter

Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.

— Laurence J. Peter

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

— Laurence J. Peter

The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.

— Laurence J. Peter

The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.

— Laurence J. Peter

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

— Laurence J. Peter

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

— Laurence J. Peter