"It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not."

-- Jeff Lindsay

#Incompetence Quotes

“Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.”
“In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy”

Source : John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns
“The child-teacher relationship is crucial.”
“Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.”

Source : "Emphyrio" by Jack Vance, (Chapter 9), 1969.
“Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.”
“Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring... It's when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.”
“Drosophila,â€ I said, remembering the word. â€œWhat?â€ Lily asked. â€œWhy do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?â€ â€œWhat?â€ â€œFruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.â€ â€œBecause theyâ€™re hot?â€ â€œThis,â€ I told her, â€œis not the time for being truthful.”
“We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.”

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