Quotes About Expertise

When someone has come to you for your expertise and your expertise has failed, what do you have left? You have only your character to fall back upon—and

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Medicine has become the art of managing extreme complexity—and a test of whether such complexity can, in fact, be humanly mastered.

People often look to great athletes for lessons about performance. ... But success in medicine has dimensions that cannot be found on a playing field.

Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.

Your competence gives you a secure sense of identity.

In the absence of algorithms and evidence about what to do, you learn in medicine to make decisions by feel.

In surgery, as in anything else, skill and confidence are learned through experience

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

And then there were the imaginary dragons, and the a-, anti- and minus- dragons (colloquially termed nots, noughts and oughtn'ts by the experts), the minuses being the most interesting on account of the well-known dracological paradox: when two minuses hypercontiguate (an operation in the algebra of dragons corresponding roughly to simple multiplication), the product is 0.6 dragon, a real nonplusser.

The "well-informed" think they know something about matters that the experts are reluctant even to speak of. Information at second hand always gives an impression of tidiness, in contrast with the data at the scientist's disposal, full of gaps and uncertainties.

It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

I'm not suggesting that neural networks are easy. You need to be an expert to make these things work. But that expertise serves you across a broader spectrum of applications. In a sense, all of the effort that previously went into feature design now goes into architecture design and loss function design and optimization scheme design. The manual labor has been raised to a higher level of abstraction.

Unlike scholarly journals, mass-market advice books are rarely reviewed by experts in the field. Instead of getting tested research findings, most of the time you get what some author claims worked for him or her, or what someone thinks might work for you, or what some publisher's marketing department hopes you will think might work for you, all mixed in with "time-tested rules" that might have worked in the past but no longer hold true.

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

A blind person could make a lifelong study of the eye, properties of light, the sight process and become a great expert in the field, but in another sense he would know nothing about sight. A person could know a great deal about God and yet not know God.

I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.

Smart people know a lot, and maybe that makes them think they know everything.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

I'm not employed for what I do,' Nathan explained. 'I'm employed for what I can do.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Schwitzgebel even scrounged up the missing-book lists from dozens of libraries and found that academic books on ethics, which are presumably borrowed mostly by ethicists, are more likely to be stolen or just never returned than books in other areas of philosophy.49 In other words, expertise in moral reasoning does not seem to improve moral behavior, and it might even make it worse (perhaps by making the rider more skilled at post hoc justification).

Schwitzgebel even scrounged up the missing-book lists from dozens of libraries and found that academic books on ethics, which are presumably borrowed mostly by ethicists, are more likely to be stolen or just never returned than books in other areas of philosophy.49 In other words, expertise in moral reasoning does not seem to improve moral behavior, and it might even make it worse

In other words, expertise in moral reasoning does not seem to improve moral behavior, and it might even make it worse (perhaps by making the rider more skilled at post hoc justification)