Incompetence Quotations

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

Evil is a form of incompetence.

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

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

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

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.

Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

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

Incompetence is the true crisis.

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.