“An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.” KnowsSoundExpertsConfusing Author:Evan Esar
“As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.” ShouldImportantPlayChoicesSoundRolesWeaponsCriticalDebateStatementsExpertsBitesDiscourseSound Bites Author:David Corn
“I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.” LooksMaySoundExpertsStorytellerPretentiousScreenwritersTed Talks Author:Damon Lindelof
“a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.” KnowsLittlesDesireIndividualSoundProgressHonestReadyKingsEndlessExpertsPriestsRelianceAllegianceEvasion Author:Mary Parker Follett
“So, Wesley Clark is running for president. Pretty amazing guy. Four star general, first in his class at West Point, supreme commander of NATO, saw combat in Vietnam, won the bronze star, silver star, the purple heart for being wounded in battle. See, I'm no political expert, but that sounds pretty good next to choking on a pretzel, falling off a scooter and dropping the dog.” FirstsHeartRunningPoliticalGuyFallNextStarsSoundPresidentClassSawsFourDogBattleWestSupremeExpertsSilverCombatVietnamWoundedPurpleDroppingCommandersChokeNatoBronzeFalling OffPretzelsWest PointScootersPurple Heart Author:Jay Leno
“This is a collaboration between a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer. It sounds like a joke, a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer walk into a bar.” ScienceSoundWalksJokesMathematicsComplexesBarsExpertsCollaborationAnalysts Author:Jordan Ellenberg