Quotes About Incompetence

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

You don't know what you are talking about, and no one sounds so silly as one who tries to talk about something he knows nothing about.

To be fair to David Brent, he wants to be famous for doing something, for being a musician, but he's just not good enough.

She certainly didn't have the ability to share her ability with the envious ones—she could only share the products of her ability. They gladly took those, and then resented her for being able to produce them. Most human beings, she concluded long ago, love to worship from afar people with extraordinary ability, but prefer to have their friends be genial incompetents. And, of course, most of them get their preference.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure

You can't put': Hiccup in charge, sir, he's USELESS.

From this irritating reality comes The First Law of Corporate Survival for ambitious CEOs who pile on leverage and run large and unfathomable derivatives books: Modest incompetence simply won't do; it's mindboggling screw-ups that are required.

Krauthammer's razor (with apologies to Occam): In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

Boy, you couldn't pour pee out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

I propose another explanation: The reason so many Americans have become alienated from government since the poll of 1964 is that government really has become more incompetent and really has become alienated from the public it is supposed to serve. Political cycles and political fashion have nothing to do with it. American government isn't what it used to be.

Idiocy flows uphill towards power.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.

The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Today's family is built like a pyramid with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

If there is a God he hasn't been paying attention. He should retire and hand over to a younger man, because he's making a real bollocks of everything.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

Clare Lyonette of the University of Warwick in the UK says that when she and her colleagues did a study on the division of labor between parents of young children, they discovered that while the women were frustrated at doing the bulk of the housework, they were mollified by their belief in what Lyonette calls "the myth of male incompetence"—that men were lousy at it, anyway.

I think that there is a degree of petulance around President Trump and also a degree of sort of blundering incompetence, which is unlike most businesspeople.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.