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My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known. — Peter S. Beagle

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence. — John Olver

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. — Orrin Woodward

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence. — A.O. Scott

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

Violence is a confession of terrible incompetence. — E.W. Hornung

History will remember the Superdome debacle - caused by the dearth of evacuation buses - as "Nagin's Folly," mayoral incompetence of the first order. — Douglas Brinkley

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it. — Elizabeth Peters

Incompetence is the true crisis. — Albert Einstein

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret. — Julian Assange

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm. — Woody Allen

is usually the refuge of incompetence." Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land — Garrett Schwanke

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence. — Brian Eno

While God can work through us in spite of our mistakes, incompetence, and lack of preparation, he commends skill and uses it for his glory. — Bob Kauflin

Men now monopolize the upper levels ... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

Incompetence is a double-edged banana. — John Perry Barlow

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous. — Carly Fiorina

There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments. — Steven Magee

I am not fit for this office and never should have been here. — Warren G. Harding

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence. — Mike Barnicle

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence — Arthur C. Clarke

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence. — Jimmy Page

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me. — Malcolm Gladwell

One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you aren't forced to choose between malice and incompetence. — Garry Kasparov

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence. — John Galliano

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. — Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes history is just an excuse for incompetence at getting along with each other. — Aleksandr Voinov

Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor. — Homer

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence. — John Kenneth Galbraith

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. — Douglas Adams

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence. — Jim Babka

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm. — Woody Allen

Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice. — Jeff Strand

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence ... sort of like the Post Office with tanks. — Emo Philips

Criticism often hides incompetence & increases vanity. Therefore critics are always more vain that the achievers they criticize. — Steve Cioccolanti

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him. — Douglas Adams

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual. — Criss Jami

Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best. — Isabella L. Bird

I have not yet witnessed a spontaneous recovery from incompetence. — Susan Scott

If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already. — Laurence J. Peter

Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained. — Jim Butcher

Incompetence," he argued, "knows no barrier of time or place. — Laurence J. Peter

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise. — Malcolm Gladwell

One moment of incompetence can be fatal. — Frank Herbert

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Evil is a form of incompetence. — Alan Bullock

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. — Bruce Catton

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H.L. Mencken

Man cannot live by incompetence alone. — Charlotte Whitton

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree. — Anton Szandor LaVey

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. — Quentin Crisp

The price of loyalty is incompetence. — Jonathan Alter

Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools? — Thomas Love Peacock

What happens is never unpredictable: there are always breaches, carelessness, incompetence, omissions, which have not prevented the occurrence. — Zygmunt Bauman

I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline. — Forrest Gregg

Expressing fear that cheap foreign labor will "steal" one's job is the most disarmingly honest admission of professional incompetence. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that. — Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind. — Roberto Cavalli

Self Government by extravagance and incompetence brings its own end. — Will Durant

I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all costs. — Jasper Fforde

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit. — Lois Wyse

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline. — James C. Collins

Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles. — William Wallace

Those who wish to deal with me, must do so on my terms or not at all. I do not make terms with incompetence. — Ayn Rand

Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence. — Burt Prelutsky

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness. — Rands

An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more. — Eraldo Banovac

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence. — Paulo Coelho

Adventure is a sign of incompetence. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence. — James Cook

I'm intolerant often, especially of incompetence, particularly my own. — Liz Trotta

Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him. — Donna VanLiere

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light. — Steven Magee

All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution. — Chris Matthews

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence. — Orrin Woodward

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. — Dora Russell

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. — Unknown

Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator, only to achieve his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence. — Markus Zusak

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself. — Mark Twight

[On Obama Administration] I've never heard any administration or any business or anybody ever claim incompetence more than this group of people, — Glenn Beck

She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel. — Peter F. Hamilton

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

These people are beyond all limits of incompetence,' said Lakshman, as he steered his horse close to his brother. — Amish Tripathi

The television culture celebrates incompetence. — Bill McKibben

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not. — Jeff Lindsay

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence. — George R R Martin

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job. — Billy Joel

She wore a dress the same color as her eyes her father brought her from San Francisco. — Danielle Steel

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex. — Bill Russell

Nonsense. Every month it's the same routine, and when you are late, I am late. Do you think I want to get my chestnuts roasted for your incompetence? — R. Cooper

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible. — Malcolm Wallop

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God. — Emily Carr

The dragons of twentieth-century life are ignorance, incompetence, slackness and disloyalty, she said. — Kate Grenville