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Quotes About Incompetence

I think the absolute worst job I ever had - not because it was a terrible job, just because I was just so bad at it - was when I worked at a scenic factory in Chicago.
~ Timothy Simons
This is the worst administration since Caligula.
~ John Dingell
There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.
~ Pierce Brosnan
The Tories have been offering us a cocktail of incompetence and malice and Labour haven't done anything to draw attention to it. It's been like watching Mesut Ozil drop perfect crosses on to the head of an increasingly frustrated Stephen Hawking.
~ Frankie Boyle
We are commanded by fools and incompetents.
~ Sean McMullen
It took real talent to be that inept.
~ Shanna Swendson
Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.
~ Haruki Murakami
People meant very little to Mike, but their performance a great deal. He worshiped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own field and he felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent;
~ Ayn Rand
He looked at the paper before him. He wondered why ineptitude should exist and have its say.
~ Ayn Rand
His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.
~ Ayn Rand
The desire was not directed at the unknown thug who had sent a bullet through the boy's body, or at the looting bureaucrats who had hired the thug to do it, but at the boy's teachers who had delivered him, disarmed, to the thug's gun—at the soft, safe assassins of college classrooms who, incompetent to answer the queries of a quest for reason, took pleasure in crippling the young minds entrusted to their care.
~ Ayn Rand
There's only one thing you can count on, Mr. President," he said. "On any given moment in any given day, somebody somewhere is screwing up.
~ Barack Obama
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity
~ Barry Eisler
These developments removed the immediate threat while exposing the regime's aggressive incompetence.
~ Stephen Kotkin
Perhaps he could encourage the House to impeach the idiot." She shook her head. "That only amplifies the problem. Everybody loves to scream impeachment. But that's not a tool to undo elections. The people chose Warner Fox. The fact that he may be incompetent is really not at issue. They've already decided they want him to lead them.
~ Steve Berry
Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.
~ Steve Martin
Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?
~ Margaret Carlson
So, Officer "Andy" managed to shoot a civilian in the head even after he'd died. Talk about taking incompetence to new heights.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
You probably don't want to put me in any situation where I'm expected to know something about the sportball.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
En general, el político es político precisamente porque es torpe.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.
~ Joseph O'Connor
Objected to as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history
~ Ervand Abrahamian
The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.
~ James Carville