Quotes About Specialization

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

I'm a left tackle. I like playing left tackle. That's my position. I think I can do it better than anybody.

Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

Some people prefer a world where we're all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don't think that world exists.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.

Many of today's students who are training to be traditional professionals will, in due course, be engaged as knowledge engineers. These new professionals will specialize in designing certain kinds of online service—we call this the 'knowledge engineering' model (section 5.7).

Los especialistas que elaboran soluciones a medida para sus clientes se verán enfrentados a nuevos métodos de trabajo, caracterizados por unos menores costes laborales, la personalización masiva, el conocimiento jurídico reciclable y el uso generalizado de tecnología avanzada, entre otros.

Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.

Unless one was going to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer or some other kind of professional person, I saw little point in wasting three or four years at Oxford or Cambridge, and I still hold this view.

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.

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.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

I think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well.

There is some evidence that the size of the average Sapiens brain has actually decreased since the age of foraging.5 Survival in that era required superb mental abilities from everyone. When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new 'niches for imbeciles' were opened up. You could survive and pass your unremarkable genes to the next generation by working as a water carrier or an assembly-line worker.

how long can we maintain the wall separating the department of biology from the departments of law and political science?

Every other mammal that went to sea – seals, sea cows, dolphins – had to evolve for aeons to develop specialised organs and a hydrodynamic body.

Cuando aparecieron la agricultura y la industria, la gente pudo basarse cada vez más en las habilidades de los demás para sobrevivir, y se abrieron nuevos «nichos para imbéciles».

When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new 'niches for imbeciles' were opened up.

Just as bad money drives out good, the broad, deep, inclusive renaissance mind is being driven out by the narrow, specialized, technical mind.

Cualquier cosa que experimentes hoy (tu café matutino, el amor que sientes por tu familia, una idea brillante que se te ocurre en el trabajo) ha sido hecha a medida específicamente para ti.

Exactly," said Saracen. "Everyone would think I decided to specialise in this because I wanted to see through people's clothes." "Why did you specialise in it?" "I wanted to see through people's clothes. I know, I know, but I was a teenager. I thought it'd be great. It's not great. Not at all.