Quotes About Incompetence

Gox is the worst-run business in the history of the world.

Just as people will admit to being bad with math more than they will admit illiteracy, business tolerates interpersonal incompetence where it would never allow financial malfeasance.

I believe that the poetic incompetence of some bigoted linguists has been mis­ taken for an inadequacy of the linguistic science itself. All of us here, however, definitely realize that a linguist deaf to the poetic function of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistic problems and unconversant with linguistic methods are equally flagrant anachro­nisms.

The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and acts of endurance - have become absurdities, signs more of incompetence, insensitivity, lack of intelligence than of strength.

Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents.

He wouldn't know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

Prejudice and incompetence go a long way toward explaining social dysfunction in the United States.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.

British generals often gave away in stupidity what they had gained in ignorance.

Jim Williams's guilt or innocence is no longer the issue," he said. "Spencer Lawton's incompetence is the issue.

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.

there were a lot of people out there who had no right to be carrying even a sharpened pencil, never mind a loaded weapon.

When stupid wins, everyone loses.

Media rule the incompetent minds and pointless believers.

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

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

when a minister is asked why the government has been unable to stop terrorists for 13 years, the minister replies: 'beginner's luck'.

I'm bad at golf.

There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can't hit the nail on the head should, please, not hit at all.

Îns? în ceea ce îi priveÅŸte pe "prietenii cei buni", mereu prea comozi ÅŸi care, tocmai ca prieteni, îÅŸi închipuie c? au dreptul la comoditate, faci bine dac? le avansezi un loc de joac?, o aren? a nepriceperii lor: vei avea astfel pricin? de râs; - sau s?-i înl?turi cu totul pe aceÅŸti prieteni buni, - ÅŸi iar s? râzi!