Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.
Evil is a form of incompetence.
We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.
Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.
Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.
In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
Incompetence is a double-edged banana.
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.
Never underestimate the incompetence of government.
Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.
The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.
Incompetence annoys me. Overconfidence terrifies me.
Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.
My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.
Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.
The price of loyalty is incompetence.
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
Adventure is a sign of incompetence.
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.
Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.
Incompetence is the true crisis.
Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.
A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.
When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.
Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.
Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.