A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
Marge Piercy

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.
Charles Foster Bass

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
Charles F. Bass

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Billy Joel

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
Billy Joel

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
Anthony Zinni

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?
Margaret Carlson

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Richard Dawkins

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
Kingsley Amis

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
James Cash Penney

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Charlotte Whitton

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Dora Russell

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.
John Olver

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Elbert Hubbard

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.
John Galliano