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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

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Laurence J. Peter
Age: 70 †
Born: 1919
Born: September 16
Died: 1990
Died: January 12
Psychologist
Teacher
Vancouver
British Columbia
Laurence Johnston Peter
Laurence Peter
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Expert
Experts
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
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An optimist expects his dreams to come true a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything.
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All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
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Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
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As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
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There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
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Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.
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The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
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Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog it feeds the hand that bites it.
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