This has actually aged pretty well........

    "I don't know why the economy works, but I'm sure it isn't because brilliant people are managing it.  My guess is that if you sum up all the absurd activities of management, the idiocies somehow cancel out, thus producing cool things that you want to buy, such as Nerf balls and Snapple.  Add the law of supply and demand to the mix and you've pretty much described the whole theory of economics."

-Scott Adams, from his 1996 tome, The Dilbert Principle:  A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions