Quotes About Expertise

Pursue those few things where you are amazingly better than others and that you enjoy most.

Geography is my strong subject," Ostin said. "Everything is your strong subject," Taylor said.

Amateurs beat the bush, seeking to frighten hiding game into the open. Even when this tactic worked, the amateur found himself poorly prepared and poorly positioned for the kill shot. The professional studied his prey, learned its patterns, and positioned

scientific opinion remains essentially mutual; it is established between scientists, not above them.

Whereas automation is the use of technology to support this traditional model, innovation enables ways of making practical expertise available that simply were not possible (or even imaginable) without the systems in question.

More than this, however, professionals should become directly involved in the development of the systems that handle and deliver practical expertise.

Our view is that there is nothing so special or unique about professionals' knowledge to suggest that some of it cannot be made easily accessible and understandable on an online basis.

Sometimes experts say that their knowledge cannot be articulated, that it is 'gut reaction' or 'intuition'. But through introspection and with the support of 'knowledge engineers' (specialists in knowledge elicitation—see section 6.8), they often find that they are able to model their expertise.

Our main claim is that we are on the brink of a period of fundamental and irreversible change in the way that the expertise of these specialists is made available in society. Technology will be the main driver of this change.

Put bluntly, professionals tend not to like sharing what they know with other professionals.

Look, Sage. I don't know much about chemistry or computer hacking or photosynthery, but this is something I've got a lot of experience with." I think he mean photosynthesis, but I didn't correct him. "Use my knowledge. Don't let it go to waste.

Sydney: I can do a lot of things, Adrian. And—at the risk of sounding egotistical —I mean, well, I can do a lot of pretty awesome things that most people can't." Adrian: "Don't I know it. You can change a tire in ten minutes while speaking Greek." Sydney: "Five minutes.

That's right, Philby said, remembering. You're a computer freak, aren't you, Maybeck? Freak? I'm freaking good with them, if that's what you're asking.

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

Mr. Wonka knows exactly what he's doing.

obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence

Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

It is not nonsense and nobody asked you; you aren't competent to have an opinion about it.

A magician is a rule-of-thumb engineer.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.

Hell, was no military man; was computer technician who had bumbled into wrong field.

Elmyr said it most bluntly: "Without the Experts, there would be no forgers.

You become a leading Expert by acting as if everybody else's opinion deserves no attention and never even deserves the courtesy of an answer.