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.
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
—Carlos Castaneda in The Teachings of Don Juan