I am pathetic - have a database of 'wise' quotes populated by a custom web crawler - filled mostly from mathematicians, Bugs Bunny, and George Carlin. I view the concepts of 'expertise' and 'wisdom' as alien to humanity at anything above the tribal organizational level. Some favorites follow.
Wisdom: "One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything." - Georg C. Lichtenberg "It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out." - Carl Sagan "You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans." - George Carlin Expertise: "The way I run this thing you'd think I knew something about it." - Bugs Bunny "I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away." - George Carlin http://xkcd.com/932/ http://xkcd.com/451/ And finaly, the relationship between expertise and wisdom: "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.." - Jimi Hendrix "The citation said that I had risen to a level of expertise, but have since been wise enough to stay on my ass." - GnySgt S.A. Scott, USMC - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
