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In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

Martin Gardner

Education, Math, Probability Theory

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Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.

Bo Sanchez

Offering, Trying, World

FaceBook post by Bo Sanchez from Nov 22, 2016

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I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

Jenna Bush

Thinking, Important, Policy

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Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

Roy H. Williams

Truth, Lying, People

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A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.

Barry Hughart

Wise, Men, Years

Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.73, Spectra

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Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.

Vitali Klitschko

Smart, Fighting, Thinking

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An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.

Peter Diamandis

Done

Twitter post from Dec 21, 2012

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Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.

J. Edgar Hoover

Children, Criminals, Way

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Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

Brian Redman

Understanding, Problem, Expertise

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When experts say nuclear power generation is safe and doesn't cost much and this is the only way to go if we want to stop relying on coal, well, we believe them. But they've been lying to us for years. And the point is, we've never really known anything about nuclear power generation. We had little interest in it before 3/11, and we certainly had no idea how difficult it is to control nuclear energy.

Junichiro Koizumi

Lying, Believe, Years

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The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

Ellen Ullman

Lying, Ignorance, Sea

Ellen Ullman (2012). “Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents”, p.110, Macmillan

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Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily very good, or are copies of what really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of a popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.

Martha Stewart

Writing, Vogue Magazine, Editors

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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will be smarter than an expert's. But if you can assemble a diverse group of people who possess varying degrees of knowledge and insight, you're better off entrusting it with major decisions rather than leaving them in the hands of one or two people, no matter how smart those people are.

James Surowiecki

Wisdom, Smart, Mean

James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.31, Anchor

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I say as an expert, no one is faithful in love -Expertus dico, nemo est in amore fidelis

Propertius

Love, Faith, Nemo

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The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not a matter of a "rational interior" that poses a problem for a decorator, rather a feng-shui intelligence is called for that orients the "house" to the flow of life that takes place in it (I rather suspect this is turned on its head in most cases of feng-shui, i.e. Americans capitulate once again to "experts").

Kenny Smith

Philosophy, Self, House

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I told John Kerry and General Allen, the Americans’ expert, ‘We live here, I live here, I know what we need to ensure the security of Israel’s people.’

Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel, People, Needs

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Our supportfor assault weapons ban is very broad...I think we've got all the police, we have all the mayors virtually - the conference of mayors, mayors against guns. We have medical experts, we have virtually dozens of religious organizations of every creed supporting us. We have just lists and lists.

Dianne Feinstein

Religious, Gun, Thinking

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The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and very seldom use the spurs. So it was with our chief [William Rehnquist]. He guided us with loose reins and used the spurs only rarely to get us up to speed with our work.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Leadership, Horse, Women

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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

Paul Newman

Courage, Opposites, Done

Paul Newman, A.E. Hotchner (2008). “In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time”, p.19, Crown Business

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Increasing access to federal student loans has been a bipartisan effort in Washington, one that I have supported. But it has created what many experts believe is a bubble in higher education, not unlike the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.

Marco Rubio

Dream, Believe, Effort

Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.62, Penguin

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Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you are green you grow, when you are ripe you rot. By staying green you will avoid the curse of being an expert. When you know in your heart that every single person you encounter in your lifetime has something to teach you, you are able to utilize their offerings in a profound way.

Wayne Dyer

Heart, Mean, Offering

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Everybody is an expert in giving advice on how you cannot do something. So forget about everybody. And then, when you encounter a hurdle-and I do that every week-view it as an opportunity, not the end of the world. Do whatever you need to do to get past it quickly. If you believe in your dream, you'll definitely get there.

Maria Elena Ibanez

Dream, Believe, Past

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Experts say men think of sex every 10 seconds... What do they think of in the other nine?

Clive James

Sex, Men, Thinking

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SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.

Dave Barry

Wisdom, Real, Kids

Dave Barry (2001). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old and Other Thoug”, p.37, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

Jimmy Cannon

Sports, Writing, Guy

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