Quotes About Incompetence

There's much more stupidity than there is malice in the world...

She'd been notoriously bad, had had a reputation among their Chicago friends for possessing a flair for the soggy, the lumpy, the burned.

Sometimes you cannot program around stupid.

This last is important. Even in corporate environments, it is very difficult to remove an underling for incompetence if that underling has seniority and a long history of good performance reviews. As in government bureaucracies, the easiest way to deal with such people is often to "kick them upstairs": promote them to a higher post, where they become somebody else's problem.

The morons in government worldwide are extraordinary in both number and depth of moronity.

I would never find a bank launched for worse reasons by more inept men.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

Criticism often hides incompetence & increases vanity. Therefore critics are always more vain that the achievers they criticize.

Don't name our stupidity, ignorance, stupid rules and lack of skills DESTINY!

That it failed to fix IBM's problems or help Akers suggests that collectively the board proved unwilling, complicit, or simply incompetent to carry out its fiduciary and ethical responsibilities until forced to by circumstances.

Well, what kind of hello is that? Besides. You wouldn't want me as a supply officer, Bagger. I'd fuck it up so bad you'd starve.

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.