Quotes About Incompetence

Don't be afraid Mr. Onaka, we need you because none of us drives. Can you imagine anything as dumb as that? They were going to make a revolution and they didn't even know how to drive a car.

A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.

But there were those photographs, and the world was full of Mrs. Grundy. He might have to back up a little bit on the incompetence of the Junior E, but Mrs. Grundy would be behind him a hundred per cent on the morals issue—when he released some of the photographs, and titillated her nasty imagination by reference to others too indecent to release.

Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter.

And it must be explained that Miss Anne Prettyman was supposed to be specially efficient in teaching Roman history to her pupils, although she was so manifestly ignorant of the course of law in the country in which she lived.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence.

There is nothing in the least exciting or glamorous about deep-water operations—if they're done properly. Excitement means lack of foresight, and that means incompetence. The incompetent do not last long in my business, nor do those who crave excitement. I went about my job with all the pent-up emotion of a plumber dealing with a leaking faucet.

Put knowledge in the hands of stupid people, and it just made them more stupid.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .

Voltaire was the first literary man to erect his incompetence into a procedure, a method.

He gains strength from the myth of his wife's incompetence.

For two centuries, the American arrangement has always managed to right itself under pressure without discarding the system and trying another after every crisis, as have Italy and Germany, France and Spain. Under accelerating incompetence in America, this may change.

I was going to bake you a cake with a hacksaw in it," he said without preamble, " but-" "But you realized it wouldn't work." "Well, no. I realized I don't know how to bake.

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

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

The Presdt is an idiot.

Heckuva job, Brownie!

Old incompetence is incompetence still.

Ambiguity makes everyone tolerant of incompetence.

Social phobics worry that their interpersonal awkwardness or the physical manifestations of anxiety—their blushing and shaking and stammering and sweating—will somehow reveal them to be weak or incompetent. So they get nervous, and then they stammer or blush, which makes them more nervous, which makes them stammer and blush more, which propels them into a vicious cycle of increasing anxiety and deteriorating performance. Blushing

Convenient targets include our "pointy-haired bosses" whom we believe are barely competent enough to tie their own shoes, the "paper-pushing fools" in the department down the hall from us that demand excessive amounts of documentation, and our "stupid users" who often don't know what they want, and when they do tell us what they want, it never makes sense anyway. Naturally, we never blame ourselves; we're perfect after all.

Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.