Best 73 quotes in «incompetence quotes» category

I am not fit for this office and never should have been here.

I arrived in the USA in 2001 and by 2015 I knew through experience that I was living in a country of corporate incompetence and blatant frauds.

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

I hate incompetence. I think it’s probably the only thing I do hate. But it didn’t make me want to rule people. Nor to teach them anything. It made me want to do my own work in my own way and let myself be torn to pieces if necessary.

One of my astronomy managers used to tell me that liquid nitrogen was harmless and was just liquid air. He would pour it onto his bare hands to demonstrate how safe he thought it was. I was later to realize that incompetence was a feature of high altitude astronomy.

My dislike of the W. M. Keck Observatory, Columbia University and Dartmouth College is based on unpleasant experiences in their employment.

Naturopathic medicine is the biggest threat to modern corporate healthcare.

Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?

I view doctors as the vampires of the medical insurance industry.

Never give a clown too many balls to juggle

One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

President Trump’s blatant denial of climate change makes him look like an incompetent.

President Trump and the nuclear bomb launch codes...what a combination!

Putting the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is merely a demonstration of willful biological incompetence by high altitude astronomy.

She couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel.

Since most parents are reluctant to talk about sex, schools have tried to fill the gap. In America, when we decide to ignore a subject, our favorite form of denial is to teach it incompetently. Familiarity without true understanding is not only the basis of our families but of our educational system as well.

The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and acts of endurance - have become absurdities, signs more of incompetence, insensitivity, lack of intelligence than of strength.

-the men were found to have left behind their guns but to have lugged such essentials as monogrammed silver cutlery, a backgammon board, a cigar case, a clothes brush, a tin of buttons polish, and a copy of 'The Vicar of Wakefield.' These men may have been incompetent bunglers, but, by God, they were gentlemen.

The most dangerous thing in life is an incompetent that has been given a gun and a law enforcement badge.

Six-Pack didn't despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president was a smirking twerp and a dumbed-down daddy's boy, and she agreed with Ketchum's assessment that Bush would be as worthless as wet crap in even the smallest crisis. If a fight broke out between two small dogs, for example, Ketchum claimed that Bush would call the fire department and ask them to bring a hose; then the president would position himself at a safe distance from the dogfight, and wait for the firemen to show up. The part Pam liked best about this assessment was that Ketchum said the president would instantly look self-important, and would appear to be actively involved--that is, once the firefighters and their hose arrived, and provided there was anything remaining of the mess the two dogs might have made of each other in the interim.

Superficial knowledge is potentially more dangerous than ignorance. It gives a false sense of security encouraging an ignorant man to persevere in his efforts that can result in huge damage.

The blatant incompetence in corporate government law enforcement is truly embarrassing.

There is a lot of willful incompetence in the wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation industry that is in the process of coming to light.

There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.

There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light.

There is a difference between really being concerned about service delivery and incompetence and just complaining for the sake of it.

There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.

When I worked at Columbia University and Dartmouth College we would handle the rubber filled mercury mirror support system with bare hands and no respiratory protection. What was ironic was that we were visually inspecting it for leaks and that microscopic leaks could be entering our bodies through our bare skin and respiratory tracts. I had no industry recognized training in correctly handling mercury systems, dealing with unexpected spills, the health hazards and the correct storage protocols. When I reflect on the mercury filled rubber mirror support band, it was just one of the many incompetence's that astronomers were subjecting their unsuspecting staff to.

[...] the vast mass of mankind are incapable of doing anything reasonably well, art among the rest. The worthless artist would not improbably have been a quite incompetent baker.

Those who wish to deal with me, must do so on my terms or not at all. I do not make terms with incompetence.

When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence. From The Wife Drought

Wake up America! The insurance companies took over health care! Wake up America! The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing! Wake up America! The speculators took over Wall Street! Wake up America! They want your Social Security! Wake up America! Multinational corporations took over our trade policies! Wake up America! We went into Iraq for oil! WAKE UP AMERICA!

When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light.

When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.

Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent?

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Witnessing the incompetence that was in the utility solar industry and is still present within the industry led me to the belief that the astronomy community must turn its views toward the environment that we are living in.

Worse than a corrupt government is an incompetent one, not least because having the second characteristic does not exclude the first one.

Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

...because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organization an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.

I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.