Quotes About Generalists

Extreme specialization has been the greatest disaster of the modern academic world. It has created narrow Mandarins, ignorant of the universal nature of reality, incapable of connecting concepts from different fields to bring everything together in one ultimate, unified subject. The AC is everything the academic world is not. It's about connecting everything. It demands that people be generalists, not the most narrow, blinkered specialists.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

People with highly transferable skills may be specialists in certain areas, but they're also incredible generalists - something businesses that want to grow need.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.