“The big commercial concerns of to-day are quite exceptionally incompetent. They will be even more incompetent when they are omnipotent.”

— G. K. Chesterton

Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 23

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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“Rewarding incompetence and ignorance increases the number of incompetent programmers. Designing programming languages and tools so incompetent programmers can feel better about themselves is not the way to go.”

Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer

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“Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.”

Josh Marshall Talking Points Memo

Talking Points Memo (2006-01-17) http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/--94387

“Government succeeds by failing: the more incompetence, the greater the potential reward in the arena of the public sector.”

L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer

Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 246

“Senior Management may have been incompetent; it may have been corrupt; it was certainly full of assholes—but they were their incompetent, corrupt assholes.”

Max Barry book Company

Source: Company (2006), p. 294

“Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.”

John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist

From hearer's memory in Jewish Frontier, vol. 29 http://books.google.com/books?id=NmYeAAAAMAAJ&q=keynes+%22inculcation+of+the+incomprehensible+into+the+ignorant+by+the+incompetent%22&dq=keynes+%22inculcation+of+the+incomprehensible+into+the+ignorant+by+the+incompetent (1962).
Alternate version: Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
As quoted in Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading (1979) by Leo Calvin Rosten, p. 165
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“The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence.”

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1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)

“Can no one imagine an incompetent Legend?”

John Steakley book Armor

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