Quotes About Expertise

Thorne's dislike of theory was legendary. In his view, a theory was nothing more than a substitute for experience put forth by someone who didn't know what he was talking about.

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

Expertise is no shield against failure to see ahead. Paul Erlich, a brilliant academic who has devoted his entire life to ecological issues, has been wrong in nearly all his major predictions. He was wrong about diminishing resources, he was wrong about the population explosion, and he was wrong that we would lose 50% of all species by the year 2000. His lifelong study of these issues did not prevent him from being wrong.

That Fatal Assumption is: if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work.

The Model Will Be Operated by People with the Lowest Possible Level of Skill

if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work.

Skills that have been well-practiced allow higher levels of arousal without becoming impaired than do newly learned skills.

Proper experience and training engrains a skill so that it's much harder to disrupt under any condition, including one of stress and arousal.

the people who already saw themselves as experts in the field would be least capable of original thought.

The financial markets paid a lot of people extremely well for narrow expertise and a few people, poorly, for the big, global views you needed to have if you were to allocate capital across markets.

They appeared to know enough to justify their jobs, and nothing more.

Toda profesión estaba organizada para confirmar la sabiduría de sus decisiones

those with the least training (graduate students) were just as accurate as the fully trained ones (paid pros)

What happens when the people in charge of managing these risks, along with the experts who understand them, have no interest in them?

began by pointing out the small mountain of research that suggested that expert judgment was less reliable than algorithms.

My book asked: What happens when the people in charge of managing these risks, along with the experts who understand them, have no interest in them?

Whatever was happening in the White House was happening without the benefit of the people Bossert felt qualified to advise the president. "The chains had been broken," he said. "None of the people who had been involved in the last fifteen years of thinking about pandemics were in the conversation. They were deep state.

Plants are nature's alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil, and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the ability of human beings to conceive

It's hard to simulate the things that I do.

I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

I don't think there's a Photoshop professional out there that doesn't owe a significant chunk of their expertise - and a big debt of gratitude - to Bruce Fraser. He almost single-handedly shaped the way we work with color, how we process RAW images in Photoshop, and even how we sharpen our photos.

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.