Competence Quote by George H. W. Bush

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems…

— Chris Hadfield

“Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all,' he added, 'and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only one thing…

— Salman Rushdie

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

— George H. W. Bush

There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into the machine,…

— Harper Reed

What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on…

— Matthew Crawford

“Competence Starts with Feeling Competent”

— David Niven

True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Just because you can build a machine that is better than a person at something doesn't mean that it is going to have the…

— Mark Zuckerberg

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those…

— Ron Perlman

“To be able to possess a machine in such a way is the ultimate show of determination and awareness. It makes one realize that…

— Garth Stein

“There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. It is not possible to learn from books how everything is…

— Henry Ford