Incompetence Quotes
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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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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