Quotes About Expertise

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

We started Vector with the goal of creating a development platform that would foster and bolster the micro space innovations currently underway and bring the promise of space-based technologies to a much larger pool of entrepreneurs who don't need to be space experts.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

I should give a TED Talk about my TV-marathoning skills. It's my sport.

If you know what you do well and stick to that, I think you can appeal to the different generations. You can strike a chord with them. I've got the brain of a teenager anyway.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.

You're a good presenter if you know your subject and you can communicate it with passion. Period. That's all that matters on telly.

I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

Good CIOs are hard to find. Even if you can find one, it may take as much as a year for a CIO new to the company to learn the company environment and become an effective leader.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

Non-declarative memory is memories associated with skills and learning. It is acquired by practice, not by recollection.

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.

He] looked as thought he had been carved out of soft ebony by a master hand that had grown bored with its own expertise, and started to veer towards the grotesque.

a master hand that had grown bored with its own expertise, and started to veer towards the grotesque.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

Many of today's foremost Russian mobsters have Ph.D.'s in mathematics, engineering, or physics, helping them to acquire an expertise in advanced encryption and computer technology.

Every boss can't have deep knowledge of every follower's expertise. When that happens, a boss's job is to ask good questions, listen, defer to those with greater expertise, and, above all, to accept his or her own ignorance. Those who fail to do so risk making bad decisions and ruining their reputations.

The atomic scientists had become important people. That was their first discovery when they returned from their laboratories to the world at large. "Before the war we were supposed to be completely ignorant of the world and inexperienced in its ways. But now we are regarded as the ultimate authorities on all possible subjects, from nylon stockings to the best for of international organisation.

it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself