I don't want to override Niels Bohr, but my definition is:
"an 'expert' is who knows everything BETTER".
In my consulting jobs I always tried to be considered a 'specialist'.
John Mikes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruno Marchal" <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
To: <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: Errata (for "the origin of physical laws)
> At 13:58 24/09/04 -0400, Hal Ruhl wrote:
>
> >I once saw a quote attributed to Niels Bohr to the effect that an expert
> >is a person who has made all the mistakes its possible to make in a
narrow
> >field of endeavor.
>
>
> I hope I am not that expert!
>
> Bruno
>
> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
>
Received on Mon Sep 27 2004 - 11:26:42 PDT