God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization. — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own,… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The gains from specialization go all the way back to Adam Smith. He talked about the advantage of a bigger market being… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of… — Michael Martin Hammer Copy Share Image
I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as many things for as long as… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also… — Keith Stewart Copy Share Image
A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial… — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
“Imagine if one should drag an innocent passer-by from the street to the operating room of a nearby hospital and force him… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Old Sam Hamilton saw this coming. He said there couldn’t be any more universal philosophers. The weight of knowledge is too great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The outstanding characteristic of Western scholarship is its specialization and cutting up of knowledge into different departments. The over-development of logical thinking… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“The ideal of an “all-round” education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The problem [of specialization] is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The very fact of seeking specialization is probably what makes America so great in these two hundred years. But also, the sensation… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
“The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body. — Catharine R Stimpson Copy Share Image
Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
“To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image