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Quotes About Incompetence

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.
~ Orrin Woodward
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
~ Oscar Wilde
A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.
~ Patricia Briggs
If you disagree with something, it's easier to say 'you suck' than to figure out and explain exactly what you disagree with. You're also safe that way from refutation. In this respect trolling is a lot like graffiti. Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it than literally making a mark on the world.
~ Paul Graham
He had shared his acquired distrust of the medical system with me after watching numerous friends die in hospitals because of what appeared to be incompetence.
~ Unknown
Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.
~ Peggy Noonan
Incompetent people lack the skills to improve because they are unable to distinguish between incompetence and competence.
~ Unknown
She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
His portrait of a married couple — brazen male incompetence on one side, camera-shy female wisdom on the other — must have evoked in many men clusters of mental images, or vague memories, recalling the first and shaping love affair of their lives, with their mother. What Barrie thought every woman knew was something that most men knew, in their troubled unconscious.
~ Peter Gay
Self-Professed Black Magicians seem universally unable to fight, fuck, or even buy their way out of wet paper bags, despite phantasizing constantly about becoming powerful psychopaths.
~ Peter J. Carroll