Quotes About Expertise

When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville

The technocrats saw expertise as the only measure of a person.

The argument for expertise as the basis for political authority depends on the experts' success at managing both their small niche and society as a whole.

The . . . argument of the expert, that the man who is trained should be the man who is trusted, would be absolutely unanswerable if it were really true that the man who studied a thing and practiced it every day went on seeing more and more of its significance. But he does not. He goes on seeing less and less of its significance

Unfortunately, stain removal methods was one of those troublesome subjects somewhere between relationship issues and mysterious car noises. Everybody was an expert, everybody had a cure, and they all fell over themselves to offer their advice.

All trades, arts, and handiwork have gained by division of labor, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a certain kind of work distinct from others in the treatment it requires, so as to be able to perform it with greater facility and in the greatest perfection.

Nobody can claim himself to be practically proficient in a science and yet disdain its theory without revealing himself to be an ignoramus in his area.

How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.

He supposed it was inevitable. Dip a person into one particular specialty deeply enough and long enough, and he would automatically begin to assume that specialists in all other fields were magicians, judging the depth of their wisdom by the breadth of his own ignorance...

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During the century after Newton , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un absoluto ignorante de todo, excepto en tu estrechísima especialidad.

When one begins by expressing lack of competence in a given field, it usually implies that a flat opinion in that field will follow almost immediately

A good Technician was rarely wrong. A top Technician was never wrong.

Escapar ileso en un combate es cuestión de suerte, hasta el más experto puede perecer por una bala perdida.

maestro, an honorary title equivalent to licenciado, our designation for almost anyone who has graduated from college. With pliers and some wire, this fellow can fix anything from a lavatory to an airplane turbine: his creativity and daring are boundless.

By the way, I have had zero press training.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given without hesitation.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

If you want something done right, get someone else to do it.