Quotes About Expertise

Better technique trumps more effort.

A curator's job does not involve wizardry, but requires a wealth of experience and knowledge, responsibility, and a good overview of artistic developments. But if we are lucky, we curators still manage to enchant visitors with the results. - René Block

Many experts lose the creativity and imagination of the less informed. They are so intimately familiar with known patterns that they may fail to recognize or respect the importance of the new wrinkle. The process of applying expertise is, after all, the editing out of unimportant details in favor of those known to be relevant.

It's rare that someone who knows the topic better than you will sit in your talk because they will go to other talks.... I wrote a book on Spring, just because I was learning it as I was writing it. - Matt Raible

you don't have to be an absolute expert to stand up there and share what you've learned. ...you're just sharing what you've learned. That doesn't mean you know it all. You have to remember that you're not the expert presenting to or lecturing students. - Jennifer Reif

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)

Well," she said, getting more comfortable, "Here's what I've got so far. I'm going to college and getting a Ph.D. in being awesome. That's a thing, right? Everyone will call me Dr. Kitten and pay me megabucks to diagnose all their problems. Because, of course, I will have all the answers.

Of course I know how to drive. Now, if you ask me if I know how to drive well, the answer would be different.

I may not be a doctor, but I've watched every episode of House. I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing.

No, lack of competence is the enemy of good

By adding the expertise of QA, IT Operations, and Infosec into delivery teams and automated self-service tools and platforms, teams are able to use that expertise in their daily work without being dependent on other teams.

Who's been calling you, and what do they want?" I ask, frowning. "Usually it's other it people who are having problems fixing something," he replies, rolling his eyes. "When something goes down, I'm apparently the only person who knows where to go looking.

build ever-deeper knowledge about how to manage the systems for doing our work, converting inevitable up-front ignorance into knowledge.

When new learnings are discovered locally, there must also be some mechanism to enable the rest of the organization to use and benefit from that knowledge into explicit, codified knowledge, which becomes someone else's expertise through practice.

Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.

Often in life we will be evaluated and judged by people less qualified than ourselves. And that's frustrating. Authority doesn't always indicate ability or good judgment.

My life is painfully full of learning experiences where I've had to be an expert at short notice,

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

Kenntnis der Mittel ohne eine eigentliche Anwendung, ja ohne Gabe und Willen, sie anzuwenden, ist, was man jetzt gemeiniglich Gelehrsamkeit nennt.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Almost every cost estimate made by a physicist is wildly wrong, and the better the physicist the worse it is (Herb York).