Quotes About Incompetence

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

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

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

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

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.

In the cold war, the CIA was condemned by the American left for what it did. In the war on terror, the CIA was attacked by the American right for what it could not do. The charge was incompetence, leveled by such men as Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. Say what one may about their leadership, they knew from long experience what the reader now knows: the CIA was unable to fulfill its role as America's intelligence service.

some of us are just too damned stupid to save.

People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves.

Osbert Mulliner was simply unequal to the task of tackling cavemen.

Remember what your grandfather said about the earth's being round at school and flat at home. He was a wise man and taught you what you need to know in Burma. It is the same in politics. Learn the arguments for socialism in the textbooks parrot them pass your exams. Never never argue. But keep within your own head and heart what you and everyone really knows that in the real world it is a system of incompetence and corruption and a project for ruining the country.

He says, "You're an idiot. You couldn't get yourself arrested without me along to help.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

Self Government by extravagance and incompetence brings its own end.

battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been generals, who were generals not through training in contemporary methods or aptitude for learning them, but by the divine right to say 'Go there' conferred upon them by an absolute caste system

Siempre son los hombres que no sirven para nada los que te dicen cómo debes hacer las cosas. Son como esos profesores de Universidad que no tienen ni un par de calcetines propios y te dicen cómo puedes hacerte millonario en poco tiempo, o esas mujeres que nunca consiguieron atrapar marido y te dicen cómo se debe educar a los hijos.

If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end of a sentence.

The Romanovian method becomes one of appointing adventurer after incompetent after nonentity to grand offices of state. The liberals and the sharper-witted right grow ever more apoplectic.

Only half-wits can stumble into such enormities.

Once we are willing to accept that good anti-authoritarian intentions do not get us off the hook for the authoritarian consequences of anarchist incompetence it becomes possible to approach the whole historical experience of the revolutionary movement in a considerably less self-righteous frame of mind.

I have an innate incompetence for anything mechanical. It has always seemed to me that a machine can tell from far away that I am afraid of it and that I don't understand anything about it, and breaks down on the spot out of sheer self-preservation.

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

It makes perfect political sense. We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.