Incompetence Quotes

The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.

~ Amit Kalantri

Superficial knowledge is potentially more dangerous than ignorance. It gives a false sense of security encouraging an ignorant man to persevere in his efforts that can result in huge damage.

~ Eraldo Banovac

And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state that it has to feed him instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie; in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labor. Wage-labor rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the laborers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of modern industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

~ Karl Marx

The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and acts of endurance - have become absurdities, signs more of incompetence, insensitivity, lack of intelligence than of strength.

~ Rosalind Coward

I arrived in the USA in 2001 and by 2015 I knew through experience that I was living in a country of corporate incompetence and blatant frauds.

~ Steven Magee

There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light.

~ Steven Magee

There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.

~ Steven Magee

There is a lot of willful incompetence in the wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation industry that is in the process of coming to light.

~ Steven Magee

When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light.

~ Steven Magee

Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent?

~ Ilona Mialik

The computer may be incompetent in itself--that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.

~ Laurence J. Peter

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

~ Amit Kalantri

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.

~ Jeff Vandermeer

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

~ Thomas Love Peacock

There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.

~ Steven Magee

One of my astronomy managers used to tell me that liquid nitrogen was harmless and was just liquid air. He would pour it onto his bare hands to demonstrate how safe he thought it was. I was later to realize that incompetence was a feature of high altitude astronomy.

~ Steven Magee

Six-Pack didn't despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy's boy, and she agreed with Ketchum's assessment that Bush would be as worthless as wet crap in even the smallest crisis. If a fight broke out between two small dogs, for example, Ketchum claimed that Bush would call the fire department and ask them to bring a hose; then the president would position himself at a safe distance from the dogfight, and wait for the firemen to show up. The part Pam liked best about this assessment was that Ketchum said the president would instantly look self-important, and would appear to be actively involved--that is, once the firefighters and their hose arrived, and provided there was anything remaining of the mess the two dogs might have made of each other in the interim.

~ John Irving

The most dangerous thing in life is an incompetent that has been given a gun and a law enforcement badge.

~ Steven Magee

When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.

~ Annabel Crabb

When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.From The Wife Drought

~ Annabel Crabb

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

~ Criss Jami

An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.

~ Eraldo Banovac

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.

~ Connie Willis

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

~ Jim Butcher

One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

~ Frank Herbert

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

~ Arthur C. Clarke

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

~ Laurence J. Peter

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

~ Charles Bass

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

~ Rush Limbaugh

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

~ James Cash Penney

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

~ Charlotte Whitton