Adam D'Angelo Quotes

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

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

When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you're careful about the rules and supporting good contributions, over time you can get better and better, like Wikipedia.

There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

I have been around football a long time and know a lot about it, so if I have an opinion and don't voice it, then it is a bit of a waste.

The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

I am not an expert on the Clinton Foundation, so, you know, I don't want to pass judgment on it.

You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some similar psychological force that is obviously present. But there are also cases where you have to recognize that you have no wisdom to add - and that your best course is to trust some expert.

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.

Trust me. I'm a genius.

If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

Never accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.