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?

— Thomas Love Peacock

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.

— Connie Willis

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.

— Steven Magee

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

— Charlotte Whitton

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

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Annabel Crabb

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

— Steven Magee

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

— Steven Magee

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

— Steven Magee

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 computers are designed and manufactured.

— Laurence J. Peter