Quotes About Specialization

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

The man of today is no longer able to understand his neighbor because his profession is his whole life, and the technical specialization of this life has forced him to live in a closed universe.

El destino al que está abocado cualquier especialista de cualquier área de la ciencia es ceñirse cada vez más estrechamente al tema de su especialidad, aprendiendo cada vez más sobre cada vez menos materia, hasta acabar finalmente sabiéndolo todo sobre nada.

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.

It's better to do one thing well than ten things poorly.

Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

Being the best at something. We can't all be equally talented at everything.

Para quien no sea un tonto de marca mayor, todas las ciencias son interesantes, pero cada sabio solo encuentra una cuyo cultivo le divierte. Descubrirla para consagrarse a ella es propiamente lo q se llama vocación

He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for which their professional specialisation has no use but by which their conversation profits.

There were more than a few scientists who knew one little thing, and then thought that knowledge was universally applicable to every other problem, to the point of excluding or discounting information from people whose specialty was that other problem.

There were more than a few scientists who knew one little thing, and then thought that knowledge was universally applicable to every other problem, to the point of excluding or discounting information from people whose specialty was that other problem. Excerpt From The Consuming Fire John Scalzi This material may be protected by copyright.

According to Hidary, most people become too dependent on one facet of their lives. And when one facet takes up 80 percent of somebody's total exposed surface area, they tend to become defensive around it, protective. They become "experts." They treat what they know as a stock rather than a flow, and they tend to isolate themselves from flows of new knowledge and the people creating them.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

Peut-être le savoir est-il trop grand, mais peut-être aussi l'homme devient-il trop petit. Peut-être qu'à force de s'agenouiller devant les atomes il finit par avoir une âme de la taille de ce qu'il adore. Peut-être le spécialiste n'est-il qu'un lâche qui a peur de regarder le monde extérieur à sa petite cage. Pensez à ce qu'il perd, votre spécialiste : le monde entier qui palpite de l'autre côté de sa clôture.

It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.

To me, the future is personalization .

Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies.

Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything.

Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. - Makoto Kuzanagi, Ghost in the shell