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• Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

  Frederick W. Taylor

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• ‘Argo,’ ‘Lincoln,’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

  Ron Fournier

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• The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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• We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

  Edward Bond

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• I’m a huge Obama fan. I think it’s such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who’s competent and not insane.

  Randy Cohen

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• It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

  Arthur Eddington

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• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

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• Because of the nature of Moore’s law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

  John D. Carmack

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• Men are very competent in their workplace – and this is going to sound s*xist – women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

  Patricia Heaton

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