Quotes About Ineptitude

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

The new Government is a weak one—so far as ability is concerned and largely inexperienced. Political

sometime over the last several decades—and it is only over the last several decades—science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.

science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.

The second type of failure the philosophers call ineptitude—because in these instances the knowledge exists, yet we fail to apply it correctly.

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honor in challenging; it was ineptitude—a gray spread of cotton that deemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way.

Agamemnon heaved the gusty sigh of one much put upon by the weight of office, the malice of chance, and the endless incompetence of underlings.

Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

Doing nothing, badly.

It took real talent to be that inept.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honor in challenging; it was ineptitude—a gray spread of cotton that 'seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way.

He looked at the paper before him. He wondered why ineptitude should exist and have its say.

His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.

El adversario al que se veía obligada a combatir no le parecía ya digno de la lucha ni de la victoria; no era una superior inteligencia la que desafiaba, sino la ineptitud; una gris extensión algodonosa, blanda y sin forma, que no ofrecía resistencia a nada ni a nadie...

We know what we do; the engines that eat us up-this is what science fiction has been saying (among other things) for a long time now. It may be preaching only to the converted, but the objective truth, the inner beast, will not go away and so neither-despite the hostility of culture, the ineptitude of many of its practitioners, the loathing of most of its editors, the corruption of its readers-neither will science fiction.

En general, el político es político precisamente porque es torpe.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Incompetent and relentless are the worst combination of qualities.

Bosheit ist bloß eine Art Ungeschicklichkeit.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.