“If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.”
As quoted in Words from the Wise : Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said (2007) by Rosemarie Jarski, p. 170
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“For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.”
Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Donald A. Norman book The Design of Everyday Things
Source: The Design of Everyday Things (1988, 2002), Ch. 6, p. 156.
“Clarke's Fourth Law: For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
Profiles of the Future (1999, London: Victor Gollancz) p. 143
On Clarke's Laws
“It's a lie. I agree with the military experts who say it's a quagmire.”
Jane Fonda (1937) American actress and activist
On the Iraq War. Rebecca Traister. Enough with the vaginas! Salon, 15 September 2004 http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2004/09/15/ensler
Variant translations:
Trust one who has gone through it.
Believe one who has had experience.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XI, Line 283; cf. "experto crede".
Dean Koontz book The Good Guy
Krait musing about fingerprints
Source: The Good Guy (2007), Chapter 21, p. 147