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  • Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

  • Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.

    Animal   Unique   Men  
  • There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.

    Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.150, Canongate Books
  • It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.

    Science   Men   Numbers  
    Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”
  • Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.

    Men   Toil   Cost  
    Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.56, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to decide for all English literature or no literature, all philosophy or no philosophy. But we have a system that is one part general education and one part specialization. If your parents say you've got to major in computer science, you can do that. But you can also take general education courses in the humanities, and usually you have to.

    Source: www.neh.gov
  • The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.

  • Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.

    Experts   Slavery   Fancy  
    "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by Buckminster Fuller, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1968.
  • Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror

    Alasdair MacIntyre (2007). “Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield
  • The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2666, Delphi Classics
  • Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

    Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf
  • Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

    Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.154, Shambhala Publications
  • The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably our separation from the practical and enriching sense of ourselves as embodied beings. When we are alienated from the wisdom of the body, our lives become theoretical and abstract, and we are distanced from the direct, felt sense of living.

    Life   Damage   Cost  
  • You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

  • Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom Increasing mutualism Increasing beauty Increasing sentience Increasing structure Increasing evolvability

    Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.244, Penguin
  • contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

    Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.56, University of Chicago Press
  • Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers.

    "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.
  • In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching.

  • The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.

    Law   Source   Process  
    Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
  • I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further from my other creative selves. I used to be able to see myself doing many things and sometimes I still long for a job that involves less pressure and grappling with people but, as you say, I am one of the lucky ones so I try to just focus on feeling lucky and carry on!

    Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.
  • In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.

    Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.6, Columbia University Press
  • The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialization of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.

  • God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

    "The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition".
  • We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.

  • People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.

  • To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert in either field. This is clearly a prescription for career disaster in today's world of ultra-high specialization.

    Careers   Today   Fields  
  • In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

    Dennis Flanagan (1988). “Flanagan's Version: A Spectator's Guide to Science on the Eve of the 21st Century”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
  • Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.35, e-artnow
  • By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

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