Always Quote by Dean Devlin

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

— Peter Bergen

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

— Orrin Woodward

“Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run,…

— Eudora Welty

“Conspiracy theories tend to depend on conspirators who are unduly evil with genocide or world domination as a motive,”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

— Mario Bunge

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

— Robert Genn

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

— Quentin Crisp

“Acknowledging actual, specific conspiracies makes sense. But reflexive conspiracism can become a bad habit and a misguided way of making sense of current events.”

— Kurt Andersen

“Whether an individual’s conspiracism exists alongside religious faith, psychologically they’re similar: a conspiracy theory can be revised and refined and further confirmed, but it…

— Kurt Andersen