80 Quotes About Incompetence
- Author Henry David Thoreau
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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.
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- Author Arthur C. Clarke
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Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
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- Author Annabel Crabb
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When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.From The Wife Drought
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- Author Annabel Crabb
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When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.
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- Author Steven Magee
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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.
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- Author Steven Magee
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If you want to know what willful international incompetence looks like, you need look no further than the toxic Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Putting the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is merely a demonstration of willful biological incompetence by high altitude astronomy.
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- Author Thomas Love Peacock
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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?
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- Author Anne Fadiman
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-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.
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