
Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 12
Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 12
Officers and Gentlemen, The Saturday Evening Post, 29 December 1900.
Reproduced in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Vol I, Churchill at War, Centenary Edition (1976), Library of Imperial History, p. 51. ISBN 0903988429
Early career years (1898–1929)
Don’t leave Syria to become a graveyard — this generation’s responsibility to the world (13 October 2015)
[Fareed, Zakaria, http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4933882/, The Price of Arrogance, Newsweek, May 17, 2006, 2006-09-01]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THHapkLeSGo?t=24m23s
Christopher Hitchens vs John Lennox - Is God Great? [2009]
2000s, 2009
Justifying million-dollar pay hike for Singapore ministers (Straits Times, 5 April 2007)
2000s
Re: New Lisp ? http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/b69c767370ee7c43 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 108
Source: Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs (1970), p. 306-307
Saturday Pioneer (3 January 1891)
The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer (1890 and 1891)
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 23
Remarks quoted in Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (1987) by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 110
“I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.”
LKML, April 21, 2006 http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/0aff8e90a185c176
2000s, 2006
2010s, 2016, August, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)
Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 36 cited in: James Ike Schaap (2011)
Peterson and Herman, “Genocide Denial and Genocide Facilitation: Gerald Caplan and The Politics of Genocide” https://mronline.org/2010/07/04/genocide-denial-and-genocide-facilitation-gerald-caplan-and-the-politics-of-genocide/, MR Online, July 4, 2010.
2010s
Vol. 3, Ch. VII, Over-Legislation
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)
Book Five : "Mundus Vult Decepi", Ch. XXVII : Fond Motto of a Patriot
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, The Threat to Intellectual Freedom
Reporters and editors luncheon address (2007)
Source: Graphics and graphic information processing (1981), p. 222; partly cited in: Laura R. Novick and Sean M. Hurley (2001) " To Matrix, Network, or Hierarchy: That Is the Question http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/Markman/PSY394/NovHur.pdf" in: Cognitive Psychology 42, 158–216 (2001)
Source: 1910's, The Art of Noise', 1913, p. 12
“Incompetent amateurs have given prostitution a bad name.”
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 11
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 78
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
“to start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.”
Letter to Winifred Arnott, 7 October 1953
17 U.S. (4 Wheaton) 316, 409 and 416-418. Regarding the Necessary and Proper Clause in context of the powers of Congress.
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983), pp. 2-3
Pg. 42
Strategy in the Missile Age
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/slackers-2002 of Slackers (1 February 2002)
Reviews, Zero star reviews
CBS interview with John Dickerson (taped 1 January 2016) for Face the Nation — as quoted in "Trump: Clinton has ruined the world" http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/trump-hillary-clinton-donald-217294 by Nick Gass, Politico (3 January 2016)
2010s, 2016, January
Source: The Great War for Civilization (2005), Chapter 8: Drinking the Poisoned Chalice (page 333)
Letter to "Music and the Drama", The Chicago Record-Herald (3 February 1903)
Letters and essays
"Nationality" (1862)
Nov. 20, 2003, Addressing the detractors of untested Marine tactics in Iraq. http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/fiasco/
Conservatives Should Think Bigger On Immigration Ban http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/11/conservatives-should-think-bigger-on-immigration-ban/ (December 11, 2015)
On old age, The Truth About Men and Other Matters http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/16/elizabeth-bislands-race-around-the-world/.
Source: The Right to Be Happy (1927), p. 241
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Appendix B: The System in its Ethical Necessity and its Practical Bearings, p.399
source: William Binney - 'The Government is Profiling You' - video lecture at MIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB3KR8fWNh0
“He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.”
Source: Space Opera (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 30)
As quoted by William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984) p. 133
How to Succeed at Vampire Slaying and Keep Your Soul (2005)
"Alice Shrugged," http://www.bigheadpress.com/lneilsmith/?p=51 18 December 2008.
As quoted in "Conservatives Against Trump" http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination (21 January 2016), National Review
2010s, 2016
2010s, 2011, Q&A with Former President George W. Bush (January 2011)
Context: Yes. I also put in the book that I felt Hugo Chavez was the Robert Mugabe of our hemisphere. In other words, this is a case for – where leadership is destroying a country. Zimbabwe used to feed South Africa. Today it's a net importer of food because the rule of an incompetent government destroyed the economy of the country.
remarks (2 May 1956) at a Caltech YMCA lunch forum http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/49/2/Religion.htm
Context: In this age of specialization men who thoroughly know one field are often incompetent to discuss another. The great problems of the relations between one and another aspect of human activity have for this reason been discussed less and less in public. When we look at the past great debates on these subjects we feel jealous of those times, for we should have liked the excitement of such argument. The old problems, such as the relation of science and religion, are still with us, and I believe present as difficult dilemmas as ever, but they are not often publicly discussed because of the limitations of specialization.
A Slave is a Slave (1962)
Context: Count Erskyll said nothing for a moment. He was opposed to the use of force. Force, he believed, was the last resort of incompetence; he had said so frequently enough since this operation had begun. Of course, he was absolutely right, though not in the way he meant. Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
Source: The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966), p. 111
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.
Aphorism 50
Novum Organum (1620), Book I
Context: But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.
Prelude
Middlemarch (1871)
Context: Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
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.
"The Christian System" in Religion: A Dialogue, and Other Essays (1910) as translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, p. 105
Context: When the Church says that, in the dogmas of religion, reason is totally incompetent and blind, and its use to be reprehended, this really attests the fact that these dogmas are allegorical in their nature, and are not to be judged by the standard which reason, taking all things sensu proprio, can alone apply. Now the absurdities of a dogma are just the mark and sign of what is allegorical and mythical in it. In the case under consideration, however, the absurdities spring from the fact that two such heterogeneous doctrines as those of the Old and New Testaments had to be combined. The great allegory was of gradual growth. Suggested by external and adventitious circumstances, it was developed by the interpretation put upon them, an interpretation in quiet touch with certain deep-lying truths only half realised. The allegory was finally completed by Augustine, who penetrated deepest into its meaning, and so was able to conceive it as a systematic whole and supply its defects.
“Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by jet lag.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 7, “Communion” (p. 134)
Al Franken
https://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=3615
Source: 1870s, Around the World with General Grant (1879), pp. 162–163
“The only national emergency is that our President is an incompetent racist.”
14 February 2019 https://twitter.com/CraigGerber_/status/1096177273059737601
Disputed tweet, quoted by * 2020-12-26
With less than a month left in office, Trump lashes out at 'totally incompetent' Supreme Court for refusing to overturn his election loss
Connor Perrett
Business Insider
2020s, 2020, December
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-supreme-court-totally-incompetent-for-refusing-to-overturn-election-2020-12?r=US&IR=T