“It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.”

— Jeff Lindsay, book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

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American playwright and crime novelist Jeffry P. Freundlich 1952

L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer

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

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

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist

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

“Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.”

W.E.B. Du Bois book The Negro

Source: The Negro (1915), Ch. XI: The Negro in the United States

“Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic, can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo”

Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer

Source: The Rescue

“In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.”

Brad Meltzer book The Inner Circle

Source: The Inner Circle

“The reward of patience in the face of misfortune is more than what has been lost.”

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic

“Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence”

Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor

Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 107 (The Mathematics of Incompetence)

“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

“bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.”

Richard Dawkins book The Magic of Reality

Source: The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

“It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.”

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