Quotes About Incompetence

Management by drive, like management by 'bellows and meat ax,' is a sure sign of confusion. It is an admission of incompetence. It is a sign that management does not know how to plan. But, above all, it is a sign that the company does not know what to expect of its managers – that, not knowing how to direct them, it misdirects them.

Watson told her that the sorry help at Chatham Bend these days couldn't pour piss out of a boot that had the instructions written on the heel.

los mejores inspectores de homicidios admitirán que en noventa de cada cien casos lo que salva la investigación es la abrumadora predisposición del asesino a la incompetencia o, cuando menos, al error garrafal.

you should never ascribe to malice what can be put down to incompetence.

fisselig (German): Flustered to the point of incompetence. A temporary state of inexactitude and sloppiness that is elicited by another person's nagging.

The Love Police, vigilant and valiant defenders of … Of what? Mediocrity? Benign Incompetence? One and a half billion people for whom nothing was more important than their own happiness?

Cualquier cosa puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres inepto para éste.

He couldn't organize a fuck in a barrel full of whores.

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

What doesn't work is to worry harder. Gotta keep our faith in human incompetence. No matter how hard we try to screw things up, we're only human: good chance we'll screw up the screwing-up. -From Bishop & Fuller's "Survival.

I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Ultracrepidarianism: the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.

I call it strategic incompetence." Shay's lips curved. "The art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.

Nobody can be bad at everything. There's no such thing as a perfect screwup.

Wait. You work for me? I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Littlemouse was in danger, doubtless a prisoner, and the humans could not be trusted to handle her rescue with appropriate violence. They might be willing to leave someone alive, and Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained.

This was a California girl, and she was raised on a history that placed not much emphasis on why. She was never an idealist, and this pleased no one. She was tainted by survival. She came back from the other side with a story no one wanted to hear, a dispiriting account of a situation in which delusion and incompetence were pitted against delusion and incompetence of another kind, and in the febrile rhythms of San Francisco in the midseventies it seemed a story devoid of high notes.

The problem is, that no matter where you work there's going to be people that are so dumb you wonder how the hell they remember to breathe every morning.

Suddenly, to be educated was to be despised. Now, when it came to physicians, Americans not only tolerated but demanded incompetence. So high was the common man exalted that state governments, all but three, actually repealed licensing requirements for doctors.

I can't play guitar or piano. I can't even play dumb to get through TSA in the airport.

We've entrusted our lives to people who know nothing about life.