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.

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

And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit...

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

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war

The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.

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

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...

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...

When focusing only on one’s credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

The computer may be incompetent in itself–that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where...

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else – cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments – as long as the paperwork’s filled out properly. And in on time.

Whenever you have this level of incompetence, that’s uncalled for. Somebody’s head should roll, period.

Politicians, it’s like they’re competing to be the most incompetent. Well, guess what? They’re all winners to me. And by winners I mean losers.

I am baffled. This is not incompetence. This is willful. That is the only way I can explain it.

Like ice, this economy is more fluid than ever. Thanks, Washington, DC!

I can’t do my job, if you don’t do yours. I also can’t do my job, so can you do mine too?