I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.
I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.
You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.
A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.
The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?
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.
We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.
There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.
