Quotes About Expertise

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

Some economists seem to think that only a credentialed economist has the right to be utterly wrong about an issue of economics. Their contempt for amateurs - columnists with broad audiences, for example - would sear the lungs if inhaled.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.

Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise, and valuable knowledge required to solve problems and optimize factory floor production.

I mean, my training at Oberlin has been absolutely valuable.

When you're that comfortable with your own product, with your own work rate - so to speak - that's when you become valuable. That's when people start vying for you, to ply your trade in their wrestling match.

Nobody will give a single rupee if you cannot match value in a professional way. For that, you need paid professionals.

I considered our British comrades to rank with the finest men and women of any armed service in the world. And I know that my fellow American soldiers - and those of the other coalition countries under my command - valued very highly the professional expertise, capability, courage, and determination of our British partners on the battlefield.

CIA has been treated with enormous respect and our expertise is valued for what we bring to the table.

This table is sure to horrify any knowledgeable scholar

Her areas of expertise are bar codes, book titles and maps - she has an original Parker Brothers map of the world.

Clarke's Second Law of Egodynamics: "For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

You intend to go . . . supersonic?' 'Trust us,' said Owen with a smile, 'it's faintly possible that we know what we're doing.

All three were experts, and all three had conflicting views. I was reminded of Clarke's Second Law of Egodynamics: 'For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

You keep meaning to cultivate an expertise in spectator sport. More and more you realize that sports trivia is crucial to male camaraderie. You keenly feel your ignorance. You are locked out of the largest fraternity in the country.

I'm the only millionaire zoologist there is.

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General ideas are more flattering. And then professionals and even amateurs always end up by being right

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let's roll out the welcome mat.