Quotes About Expertise

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded."... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

When we studied them, excellent performers were rarely well rounded. On the contrary, they were sharp.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

You people know a lot about trucks.

I'm getting a few "special blonds" as well, Judith. So, we know that your primary area of expertise is working with individuals who are challenged by chronic disorganization. Can you tell us more about how you got into this business?

The difference between science and philosophy is that the scientist learns more and more about less and less until she knows everything about nothing, whereas a philosopher learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything. There is truth in this clever crack, but, as Niels Bohr impressed, while the opposite of a trivial truth is false, the opposite of a great truth is another great truth.

experts in my field have acknowledged that the need to have control over another human being was an example of abuse.

Comedy, Lorne often said, is too important to be left to professionals.

be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.'" "Oliver Wendell Holmes,

To be the master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine." —Neil deGrasse Tyson

In any profession, you will be respected if you are good at your job – not because you are good at talking about your beliefs. It may be quite irrational, but the fact is that, if you are recognized as being outstanding on one thing, you will be listened to on all sorts of subjects in no way related to it... and so, if you are going to be really effective [for your cause] in your place of work, you must set out to be the best man at your job.

Always at the hands of people who range from the semi-informed to the uninformed.

Very few experts actually measure their performance over time, and they tend to summarize their memories with anecdotes. They are right sometimes and wrong sometimes, but the anecdotes they remember tend to be more flattering to them.

A cybersecurity expert can become well versed in technical details such as conducting penetration tests, using encryption tools, setting up firewalls, and much more—and still be unable to realistically assess their own skills at forecasting future events.

We mustve been here before, its still fresh on my mind. You got that shit that somebody would look for but wont find. You mustve done this before, this cant be your first time.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

The real problem with relying on experts, however, is not that they are appreciably worse than nonexperts, but rather that because they are experts we tend to consult only one at a time.

Everybody can tell you how to do it, but very few have ever done it.... I'm at the point where I don't care. I really don't care. That's the last thing on my mind. I'm doing what I think is right every day. There's a good chance with my background and experience that I know better than most.

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession.

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

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'