Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution. — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable. — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence. — Bob Herbert Copy Share Image
We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
“There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers… — George V Higgins Copy Share Image
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum… — Margaret Carlson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump hasn't blown us up yet. But he terrifies me. For one thing, the incompetence. He doesn't have any real understanding… — John Dean Copy Share Image
All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Never in the history of American warfare has this nation witnessed such an exhibition of cowardice, indecisiveness, incompetence, and laziness in the… — Dennis Byrne Copy Share Image
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us:… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says… — Jacques Dubochet Copy Share Image
In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“A moment later he was sent sprawling on a hard wood floor. The idiots left him alone – why they thought a… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“But the point was it was the construction itself that had made a minor disaster into a major one. And the construction… — James Herbert Copy Share Image
The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow… — George Will Copy Share Image
Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
I don't think either party has any idea what's headed their way. Their business is to remain mired in process. They call… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“According to Mark 11:12-13, God's messengers were not the only ones who were incompetent: 'He [Jesus] was hungry. And on seeing in… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
There's a right way and a wrong way to do things. If you make a chair, you want to make a nice… — Hal Hartley Copy Share Image
“My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image