Incompetence Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than 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.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

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

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

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

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

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

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

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

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

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

Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.

Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing. They just pose and act as if they know and walk through life and get away with it.

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

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

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