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A collection of quotes on the topic of specialist, people, other, use.
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as quoted in "Keynes and the Ethics of Capitalism" by Robert Skidelsy http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1256603608595872&url=www.geocities.com/monedem/keyn.html
Essays in Persuasion (1931), Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930)
Context: When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease … But beware! The time for all this is not yet. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight.
“The specialist is a man who fears other subjects.”
Fischerisms (1944)
Message of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Participants in the European Regional Meeting of the World Medical Association, From the Vatican, 7 November 2017 https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2017/documents/papa-francesco_20171107_messaggio-monspaglia.html
2010s, 2017
Source: Joseph Nechvatal. in: " Origins of Virtualism: An Interview with Frank Popper http://www.mediaarthistory.org/refresh/Programmatic%20key%20texts/pdfs/Popper.pdf," in: Media Art History, 2004.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 1
Minima Moralia (1951)
Context: The son of well-to-do parents who … engages in a so-called intellectual profession, as an artist or a scholar, will have a particularly difficult time with those bearing the distasteful title of colleagues. It is not merely that his independence is envied, the seriousness of his intentions mistrusted, that he is suspected of being a secret envoy of the established powers. … The real resistance lies elsewhere. The occupation with things of the mind has by now itself become “practical,” a business with strict division of labor, departments and restricted entry. The man of independent means who chooses it out of repugnance for the ignominy of earning money will not be disposed to acknowledge the fact. For this he is punished. He … is ranked in the competitive hierarchy as a dilettante no matter how well he knows his subject, and must, if he wants to make a career, show himself even more resolutely blinkered than the most inveterate specialist. The urge to suspend the division of labor which, within certain limits, his economic situation enables him to satisfy, is thought particularly disreputable: it betrays a disinclination to sanction the operations imposed by society, and domineering competence permits no such idiosyncrasies. The departmentalization of mind is a means of abolishing mind where it is not exercised ex officio, under contract. It performs this task all the more reliably since anyone who repudiates this division of labor—if only by taking pleasure in his work—makes himself vulnerable by its standards, in ways inseparable from elements of his superiority. Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game.
Paul Monk, Australian Financial Review, cited in: Philip E. Tetlock. Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?, 2015. Back cover.
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“No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.”
#41
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
1979
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
On Robert Gates in interview with Larry King. (February 2010) http://en.rian.ru/interview/20101202/161586625.html
2006- 2010
Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 157 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.
Responding to the question, "what did the United States have to gain by intervening in Somalia?", regarding Operation Provide Relief/Operation Restore Hope/Battle of Mogadishu.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999, Sovereignty and World Order, 1999
1980s and later, "Two Pages of Fiction" (1982)
Talking to BBC Sinhala Service about a proposed investigation into allegations on war crimes, quoted on Daily Mirror.lk (February 5, 2016), "The international community need not worry about matters of state interest”- President Sirisena" http://www.dailymirror.lk/104990/The-international-community-need-not-worry-about-matters-of-state-interest-President-Sirisena-
August-Wilhelm Scheer, I. Cameron (1992) Architecture of integrated information systems: foundations of enterprise modelling. Abstract.
2010s, And Then What? (June 2018)
“None of the great discoveries was made by a "specialist" or a "researcher."”
Fischerisms (1944)
Borejza, Tomasz (January 2018): Trochę bakterii nie zaszkodzi https://www.tygodnikprzeglad.pl/troche-bakterii-zaszkodzi/. Przegląd (4/2018): pp. 54–55.
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
Letters
Source: Modernity — An Incomplete Project, 1983, p. 8-9
Götz Adriani, Joseph Beuys, Winfried Konnertz (1979) Joseph Beuys, life and works. p. 255
1970's
in The Role of Canadian Science, edited by [Bernard Ostry, Janice Yalden, Visions of Canada: the Alan B. Plaunt memorial lectures, 1958-1992, McGill-Queen's Press, 2004, 0773526625, 492]
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 157.
1960, Speech at East Los Angeles College Stadium, Los Angeles, California
Source: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933), p. 1, Chapter 1: Fatigue; Lead paragraph
Source: "The Latest Attack on Metaphysics" (1937), p. 155.
Source: Organization and environment: Managing differentiation and integration, 1967, p. 9
Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 256-261 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese (February 1986).
translated as The Cost of Discipleship (1959), pp. 46-47.
Discipleship (1937), Costly Grace
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 23
Source: System Engineering (1957), p. 8
making parents and teachers a subtype of animal trainers
Source: Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Think You Know (2010), p. 155
Franco Modigliani and Merton H. Miller. "The cost of capital, corporation finance and the theory of investment." The American economic review (1958): 261-297.
Text back cover.
Companion encyclopedia of the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences (2003)
As quoted in "All-Star Case of Roberto Clemente" by Sam Lacy, in The Baltimore Afro-American (July 21, 1970)
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1970</big>
Eventually the party condemned both camps, and created a dialectical synthesis of both forms of ignorance.
pg. 64
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume III: The Breakdown
Source: Religion of China (1915), p. 246
Vol II, p. 18; as cited in: Hopf (1947).
1940s, The Making Of Scientific Management, 1945
"The Darfsteller" (1955)
Source: 1960s, Presentation to U.S. Congressional Sub-Committee on World Game (1969), p. 15
Diary entry regarding Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (July 1924), published in Letters (1966), p. 97
From 1980s onwards, Cosmography (1992)
Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 59.
Source: Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science, Section A (1910), p. 283; Cited in: Moritz (1914, 108-9): Modern mathematics.
Preface to the 3rd edition of Berlioz and the Romantic Century (1969)
L.V. Kantorovich (1996) Descriptive Theory of Sets and Functions. p. 39; As cited in: K. Aardal, George L. Nemhauser, R. Weismantel (2005) Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, p. 15-26
“What is liberal education,” p. 5 [The phrase “specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.” is from Max Weber]
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
"Where U.S. Translates As Freedom" http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/opinion/where-us-translates-as-freedom.html (28 December 2003), The New York Times
Source: The Classification Research Group 1952—1962 (1962), p. 133 as cited in:
Quoted in The International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005).
“A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.”
Speech before a gathering of physicians (circa 1922) http://books.google.com/books?id=qYIHAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+specialist+is+a+man+who+knows+more+and+more+about+less+and+less%22&pg=PA35#v=onepage
YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdDtwc9HA7s&feature=g-vrec&context=G2e1b344RVAAAAAAAABg
Clickpress release http://www.clickpress.com/releases/Detailed/3033005cp.shtml (9 August 2009).
Quote (1904), # 512, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, translation: Pierre B. Schneider, R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight; publisher, University of California Press, 1964
1903 - 1910
Source: "The Latest Attack on Metaphysics" (1937), p. 145.
trans. Michael Chase, p. 272
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
though it might conceivably be in some different ones!
Conversations with Economists (1983)
Roger B. Smith, chairman, General Motors Corporation, at Albion College, Mich. quoted in: U.S. News & World Report Vol 92 (1982). p. 66.
Source: The Management of Innovation, 1961, p. 5-6
Source: More Than Just Comfort: An Answer to Cancer (c. 1979)
Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 28
Quoted in Degas' letter to Daniel Halévy, 31 Jan 1892, from Degas Letters, ed. Marcel Guerin, trans. Marguerite Kay (1947)
1876 - 1895
7.6, "The Figurative Arts, Literature and Music", p. 228
The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn (2004)
Second obituary on BBC news website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1958051.stm
Source: Production, information costs, and economic organization. 1972, p. 777, Lead paragraph
So remote were the operations researchers from the social science community that economists wishing to enter the territory had to establish their own colony, which they called “management science”.
1960s-1970s, "Rational decision making in business organizations", Nobel Memorial Lecture 1978
Librarians and Information Systems (1995)
The Pageant of Life (1964), On Doctors
"Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" in The Forerunner (October 1913).
Patrick Geddes (1947). "Town Planning in Kapurthala. A Report to H.H. the Maharaja of Kapurthala, 1917". In: Jacqueline Tyrwhitt. Patrick Geddes in India. London: Lund Humphries. p. 26.
Source: Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921), p. 179
Franco Modigliani and Merton H. Miller. "The cost of capital, corporation finance and the theory of investment." The American economic review (1958): 261-297.
In response to a journalist who asked about Russian abuses in Chechnya during a press conference in November 2002 Newsbusters http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/12/30/ouch-putin-answer-about-terrorism-stuns-press-conference-silence#ixzz2Wxbq9sOU
2000 - 2005
if we think them ineffective, we call them ceremonies
Source: 1930s, "Empirical Sociology" (1931), p. 319