Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism