Quotes About Incompetence

When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.

Standards in public life have decayed over time... Incompetence is the norm.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

large and honest, but indifferent or incompetent, state bureaucracy creates expectations that give rise to this dialectic of dependence and resentment, which does not exist in Italy, where no one would assume the honesty and therefore the benevolence of the public administration in the first place.

The president may be a nice guy, but he's just over his head.

He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

Dad wouldn't be able to find his own butt with a map and a fully charged Ass Detector.

This was the fall of 2004. The wider world was deeply fucked, and home also. Two American wars raging—bloodbaths each, bloodbath major and bloodbath minor, ugly, squirrelly hateful clandestine wars marked by betrayal, incompetence and corruption. Don't get me started.

Incompetence, bureaucracy, arrogance, tired executive blood, poor planning, and short-term investment horizons obviously have played leading roles in toppling many companies.

Work is done by those [employees] who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence." He warned that extremely skilled and productive employees often face criticism, and are fired if they don't start performing worse. Their presence "disrupts and therefore violates the first commandment of hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved.

Given enough time—and assuming the existence of enough ranks in the hierarchy—each employee rises to, and remains at, his level of incompetence.

He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.

In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties.

The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence × 100 Total no. of employees in hierarchy Obviously, when MQ reaches 100, no useful work will be accomplished at all.

Nobody understands how the incessant pressure from above and the incurable incompetence below make it utterly impossible for me to do an adequate job and keep a clean desk.

Many a man, under the old and the new systems, has made the upward step from candidate to legislator, only to achieve his level of incompetence.

The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.