#specialists

The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting. ↗

— John Adams

#penmanship #specialists #humor

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#been #handed #merely #now #over

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#absolutely nothing #charming #conversation #delightful #nothing

You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up. ↗

— Randy West

#could #how #i #jobs #know

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#abstract #computer #control #fought #future

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#discovered #encounter #etc #felt #first

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. ↗

— Luc Besson

#before #berlin #berlin wall #big #big guys

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live. ↗

— Guy Debord

#apparent #compensate #fragmented #identify #life

I was born into a world full of 'specialists'. I'm not sure whether it's the result of our education system or just natural entropy, but it's very uncommon to know a poet with even a mediocre knowledge about art, or an artist with a good taste in poetry, and so on and on. What this really is: lack of general education in a structural sense: god knows how many people I've met that are actually PROUD about proclaiming their ignorance about another field: it is as if it signifies their 'devotion to one path' while in reality they really only look like a buffoon if you ask me. New is that I am encountering 'Literary Critics' that proudly proclaim to 'never have read any foreign poetry' as if a 'movie critic' that only has watched Dutch films would be somehow capable of criticizing them in any true sense of the word. ↗

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

#specialists #art

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes. ↗

— Walter Gropius

#mistakes #people #repeat #same #specialists