Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

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

— H. L. Mencken

You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live!

— Anonymous

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse,…

— Anthony Zinni

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are…

— Matt LeBlanc

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

— Masha Gessen

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

— C. S. Lewis

“Sometimes history is just an excuse for incompetence at getting along with each other.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“Expecting accountability from the UN system was akin to expecting a blind dog to catch a flying Frisbee.”

— Michael Soussan

The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of…

— Femi Fani-Kayode

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

— Roberto Cavalli

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…

— Barbara Tuchman

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

— Douglas Adams

My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner…

— Gregory Galloway

I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other…

— Joseph Epstein