Top Incompetence Quotes

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 r...

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

Incompetence Definition

(n.) Alt. of Incompetency

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.

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

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

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

Wait. You work for me?I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

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.

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

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

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

An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more.

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?

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. Famili...

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

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

[H]e was one of those people who got to the top of an organisation through luck, connections, the indulgence of superiors and that sort of carelessness towards others that the easily impressed termed...

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

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

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 myse...