Zitat des Tages über Inkompetenz / Incompetence:
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.
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.
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.
The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
The American psyche has not recovered, and likely will not ever fully recover, from the profound and relentless incompetence of George W. Bush's disastrous, multitrillion-dollar war.
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.
The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.
Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.
While Secretary Napolitano may be gone, she will not be forgotten. Her inaction and incompetence on border security will continue to plague our nation for years to come.
The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
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?
Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.
We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point.
The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.
You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.
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.
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.
Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.
Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.
By reading, you learn through others' experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.
If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.
I'm intolerant often, especially of incompetence, particularly my own.
More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.