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  • As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.

    "Don't Look to Government to Cool Down the Planet". abcnews.go.com. November 14, 2007.
  • I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

  • I love my career, but I feel like you've got to babysit a lot of aspects of things. Assuming that things will be handled properly is just naive. But I think that's anyone's life, right? Even if you're running a construction site, it doesn't matter if you've been doing it for 20 years, you're still going to be blindsided by someone's incompetence or indifference.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.7, Vintage
  • Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.

  • Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

  • Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

    Men   Missing   Path  
    R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.241, The Overlook Press
  • I guess working in the legitimate industry, the best thing you can take away from it is acceptance of the incompetence that often surrounds you. No, that sounds horrible. The most important thing, I guess, is the fact that working in the legitimate industry, what I see all too often is people trying to interpret the wishes of the audience, which with today's technology, is all too easy to measure empirically.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

  • This is a great nation at terrible risk in a dangerous world, and she has fully exposed this nation and will continue to do so because of her utter incompetence and Hillary Clinton lack of care, lack of attention, lack of concern.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

  • Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

    Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.31, Booklassic
  • Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

    Giving   Quality   Use  
    Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.280, Routledge
  • [ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.

    Fall   Enemy   Favors  
    Lynn Kurland (2010). “Star of the Morning”, p.143, Penguin
  • There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

  • Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

    W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). “The Negro”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

  • It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

    "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.
  • Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

    "Julian Assange: The Byline Interviews, Part One – ‘The God of Mass Surveillance". Interview with Seung-yoon Lee, www.byline.com. June 11, 2015.
  • The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

    "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org.
  • Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

    John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.226, Princeton University Press
  • 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.

    Richard Hofstadter (2016). “The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay: from The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, p.19, Vintage
  • Incompetence is the true crisis.

  • I think her comments - Hillary's Clinton comments just don't get the same attention that Trump's do. For example, she lied to a Gold Star mother. She lied to pre - Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who - who was killed at Benghazi, I believe, because of her incompetence, her incompetence in failing to secure that mission.

    Mother   Stars   Believe  
    "'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". abcnews.go.com. August 7, 2016.
  • Even though . . . 9/11 happened because . . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy . . . , Bush not only failed to apologize to the nation or the victims' survivors, he demonstrated his total lack of leadership by refusing to fire or even criticize those in these agencies who, like Bush, let this nation down. As in private life, to stimulate excellence, good performances have to be rewarded and gross negligence and incompetence punished.

    Fire   Agency   Political  
  • The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

    Revenge   Pride   Wrath  
  • For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

  • America is an enormous country with enormous resources. The basic American spirit creates the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford and Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Once we start rolling, we're pretty formidable. And the incompetence of the government is so massive that even a moderately good executive could regain much ground pretty rapidly. Donald Trump is a very good executive.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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