I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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As quoted in An Uncommon Scold (1989) by Abby Adams, p.176Edith Sitwell
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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.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
Charley Reese
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
You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers. I cannot have that!
Lee Kuan Yew
My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country.
Frederic Chopin
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