The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Don’t be afraid to say no to projects. Prove that you’re serious about specialization by turning down work that falls outside your… — John Warrillow Copy Share Image
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any… — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization — George Stigler Copy Share Image
“Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his… — William Barrett 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
We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think. — Dale Jamieson 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
The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped… — Gabe Newell 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
More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not… — Theobald Smith Copy Share Image
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I think at a place like Harvard, our experience, I was involved with, at various stages, in trying to implement a new… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The standardization and specialization of industrialization was being undermined by globalization. When people in Bangladesh could produce things much more cheaply than… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“The progress of science has been amazingly rapid in the last decade; but consider the savants, those exhausted hens. They are certainly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is… — Wendell Berry 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