Quotes About Incompetence

He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork.

learned a long time ago never to underestimate the spectacular natural wonder that is people's stupidity.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.

If there is any way for that man to do the job wrong, he'll do it that way.

To an extent that most accounts still underrate, the Bolshevik Revolution was a German-financed operation, though it was greatly facilitated by the incompetence of the Russian liberals.1 Lenin's goose should have been cooked after the failure of the first Bolshevik coup attempt in early July and his exposure as a German agent in the newspaper Zhivoe Slovo, which led to formal charges of treason against him and ten other Bolshevik leaders.

You're losing your touch , Natasha. An unencrypted pay phone? Amateur hour.

People keep saying, God is in the details. He isn't in ours, unless his yokel creationist fans wish to take credit for his clumsiness, failure, and incompetence.

Should I pander to your.....incompetence so you'll feel better? I don't think so.

Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing.

For all its size and sophistication, even the American military was capable of little more than a lengthy string of elaborate failures.

Stupid people make bad rulers.

but men who feign helplessness—which Oberlin specialized in—can be just as manipulative as alpha males because they use their incompetence to free themselves of menial tasks that are then saddled onto women.

los imprevistos son siempre el resultado de la incompetencia

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

On Obama Administration] "I've never heard any administration or any business or anybody ever claim incompetence more than this group of people,

We allow poor teachers to hang around and plague our schools until they choose to retire. That

authors had analyzed fifty cases of purported "Islamic terrorist plots" against the United States, only to conclude that "virtually all of the perpetrators were 'incompetent, ineffective, unintelligent, idiotic, ignorant, unorganized, misguided, muddled, amateurish, dopey, unrealistic, moronic, irrational, and foolish.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Excuses are the tools with which incompetents build to themselves great monuments of Nothing.

Bureaucratic cultures arise to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline, which arise from having the wrong people on the bus in the first place.

the purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline—a problem that largely goes away if you have the right people in the first place.