246 Quotes About Experts

  • Author Olivier Magny
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    Most people whom you may view as wine experts are usually just good at one thing: winemakers are good at making wine, sommeliers at talking about it, and wine journalists at drinking it for free.

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  • Author Nicholas Day
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    Watson and Liedloff are extreme cases, but a hint of the end times, in their secular incarnation, lurks in almost all guides to child rearing. It has to be there: the implicit appeal of any respectable child-care authority is that he or she is saving you from purgatory. After all, if there isn't a purgatory to be saved from, what are you so concerned about? Why are you consulting a child-care authority, anyway?

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  • Author Amanda Ripley
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    Whether they are at an airline or at a command center, experts will err on the side of excluding the public, as we have seen. If they can avoid enrolling regular people in their emergency plans, they will. Life is easier that way, until something goes wrong.

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  • Author Evgeny Morozov
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    One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.

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  • Author Nicholas Day
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    While everyone was screaming in italics, the babies themselves seem to have done just fine. Despite their inability to do almost anything on their own, infants are far more flexible than they get credit for: within a few obvious parameters—food, shelter, love—they are astonishingly adaptive.

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  • Author David Antin
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    I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

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  • Author Erica Abbett
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    Our gas experts on site that day conducted a thorough investigation on our system. Through these investigations, there was no indication that the leak was occurring outside.

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  • Author Lance Armstrong
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    four or five anti-doping experts around the world that have gone on the record and said this is crazy.

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