“Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 107 (The Mathematics of Incompetence)
“The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence.”
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
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J. L. Austin (1911–1960) English philosopher
Austin (1975, p. 18–19) as cited in: James Loxley (2006) Performativity. p. 81.
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Q&A with community activists, February 10, 1989.
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s
Context: If any of you have ever looked at your FBI file, you discover that intelligence agencies in general are extremely incompetent. That's one of the reasons why there are so many intelligence failures. They just never get anything straight, for all kinds of reasons. Part of it is because of the information they get. The information they get comes from ideological fanatics, typically, who always misunderstand things in their own crazy way. If you look at an FBI file, say, about yourself, where you know what the facts are, you'll see that the information has some kind of relation to the facts, you can figure out what they're talking about, but by the time it works its way through the ideological fanaticism of the intelligence agencies, there's always weird distortion.
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Salon interview (1997)
Context: The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts. I think that a terrible bitterness and anger began there, which led to communism. And now it feeds terrorism. Anyway, that's my thesis. It's very oversimplified, as you can see.
Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer
Re: New Lisp ? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/b69c767370ee7c43 (Usenet article). <br class="br">Usenet articles, Miscellaneous
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 23
David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Remarks to newspaper executives (3 October 2005), as quoted in "Horror as Cameron brandishes the B-word" by Andrew Pierce, in The Times (5 October 2005), page 9.
2000s, 2005
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
As quoted in An Apple for the Teacher: Fundamentals for Instructional Computing (1983) by George H. Culp and Herbert N. Nickles, p. 190; also in Youth Quake: A Manifesto (2002) by Cousin Sam, p. 31
“Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 50.
“The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified