Quotes about incompetence

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 w

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.

One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

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

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

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

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