Quotes about Expertise

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

Maintenance is as much art as it is science.

We all have our skill sets, right?

Nothing has so much exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

Having the right equipment is often the difference between success and failure. To insert a screw, a carpenter doesn't use a knife. When you're under anesthesia, you don't want your surgeon using a chainsaw. A climber on Mount Everest won't use dollar store equipment. Professionals are picky about using the right equipment as they know it can be dangerous if they aren't. Life can be dangerous, too, so it's essential that you use the right equipment.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.