Incompetent Quotes

“is she some kind of efficient incompetent.”

— Steve Merrick

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

— Woody Allen

“as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

— Robert Baer

“The doctor was clueless!”

— Steven Magee

“True evil is always petty and often incompetent.”

— Claire Chilton

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

— Isaac Asimov

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

— Jeff Bezos

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

— William Allen White

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise.”

— Paul Adefarasin

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

— Laurence J. Peter

I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

— Linus Torvalds

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

— Leon Jaworski

Even when they are trying to deceive the voters, the Democrats are incompetent.

— Steve Hilton

I couldn't imagine a more incompetent politician than myself.

— Marc Benioff

Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end…

— Arlen Specter

Of course Labor think it's a choice between schools, hospitals or stadiums - because they were so incompetent they couldn't manage the…

— Gladys Berejiklian

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared…

— Michael Palin

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient…

— Charley Reese

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

— George Chapman

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he…

— Walter J. Phillips

Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.

— Raghuram Rajan

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

— Attila the Hun

Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart…

— Peter Drucker

Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race…

— James Cook

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has…

— Juan Cole

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it.…

— Carl Paladino

Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying,…

— Richard J. Foster

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of…

— Ludwig von Mises

“He [Lucius Papirius Cursor] then gave the order to advance the standards and led out his troops, expostulating on the folly of…

— Livy

Congratulations to Obama! He's now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency.…

— Frank J. Fleming

In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization,…

— Jerry Pournelle

If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act… Only…

— Donald Woods Winnicott

There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his…

— Peter Greenaway

You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll…

— Lee Kuan Yew

“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

I spent a lot of 2012 going around the country saying that President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president…

— Bobby Jindal

Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with…

— Eugene V. Debs