A guy I used to work said exactly that about his fairly elementary computer knowledge. “I don’t have to know a lot. I just have to know more than they do, and they think I know a lot.”
I always say that you only need to know a little more than someone else (about something) and then they really do not know how much you know, just that you know more than them.
Knowing just a little can bring big rewards. The classic story is about a home owner who called a repair man for a job. Repairman arrived and estimated $200 which was accepted. Ten minutes later the job was finished. HO asked How can you charge that much for a ten minute repair? Repairman said _ Fix only cost about $10. The rest is for knowing how to do it._
In Martha Grimes’s Richard Jury novels, there is a minor but recurring character whose thing is to memorize, IIRC, 5 facts about a subject; she then moves on the the next subject. This is enough that most people are convinced she is an expert on all these subjects, thus giving the impression – at least at the cocktail-party level – that she is highly intelligent and extremely widely read.
I guess we can’t have POLAR bears when we’re nowhere near the poles in the Great Lakes region, but how cool would that be? We don’t have any beaches for the most part either. At least by us in Lake Huron.
This is what they tell you in the School of Education just before handing you your BA and pushing you all alone into a classroom of 30 kids: “Just stay a chapter ahead of them in the textbook and they’ll all think you know what you’re talking about.”
Frazz14 hrs · Just because I’m willing to swim as far as I can in uncomfortably cold water if that’s what it takes to do the swims I want to swim doesn’t mean I’m good at it. If I can catch a break and do that same swim in warmer water, I’m all for it, as long as I don’t think too much about the causes and planetary consequences of all that trapped heat.But I’ll think about my own personal consequences. The Great Lakes really didn’t freeze over much this year. Like, hardly at all. And my first thought, once I got done worrying about the planet, was, “hey, I wonder if that’s going to make it a little warmer for this year’s swim across the Straits.” Of course, the past two years the water in the Straits was veritably balmy, and those winters had a ton of ice. So maybe it doesn’t work like I thought it worked. Ice is a pretty good insulator, after all, and maybe it keeps the water below it actually a bit warmer. And then there’s the matter of just how much water is in those lakes. They’re at, and predicted to stay at, record high levels, and I don’t know what that does to the overall water temperature. It was all too much to think about, so I went with polar bears.
Bilan about 4 years ago
That last line makes me worried that Caulfield is going to become a politician.
The Old Wolf about 4 years ago
As long as he knows how much he doesn’t know, Caulfield should be ok.
dwane.scoty1 about 4 years ago
Which makes him smarter than the Average Bear!
Ignatz Premium Member about 4 years ago
A guy I used to work said exactly that about his fairly elementary computer knowledge. “I don’t have to know a lot. I just have to know more than they do, and they think I know a lot.”
DiminishedFirst about 4 years ago
I always say that you only need to know a little more than someone else (about something) and then they really do not know how much you know, just that you know more than them.
mourdac Premium Member about 4 years ago
Good things Napoleon and Hitler didn’t attack Moscow this winter, barely any snow. But it means nothing….
cervelo about 4 years ago
Lake effect snow wreaks havoc on morning commutes.
sandpiper about 4 years ago
Knowing just a little can bring big rewards. The classic story is about a home owner who called a repair man for a job. Repairman arrived and estimated $200 which was accepted. Ten minutes later the job was finished. HO asked How can you charge that much for a ten minute repair? Repairman said _ Fix only cost about $10. The rest is for knowing how to do it._
Cozmik Cowboy about 4 years ago
In Martha Grimes’s Richard Jury novels, there is a minor but recurring character whose thing is to memorize, IIRC, 5 facts about a subject; she then moves on the the next subject. This is enough that most people are convinced she is an expert on all these subjects, thus giving the impression – at least at the cocktail-party level – that she is highly intelligent and extremely widely read.
maxiesmom2 Premium Member about 4 years ago
I guess we can’t have POLAR bears when we’re nowhere near the poles in the Great Lakes region, but how cool would that be? We don’t have any beaches for the most part either. At least by us in Lake Huron.
Rotary12 Premium Member about 4 years ago
More than you know kid.
Herb L 1954 about 4 years ago
Polar Bears are moving inland to feed,as the ice is melting too fast.This message brought to you by Captain Obvious ;~|
ShortStraw about 4 years ago
He’s setting himself up to be a FB influencer
Drbarb71 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Which is most of America who’d rather Tweet than listen in science class. Sigh…
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 4 years ago
This is what they tell you in the School of Education just before handing you your BA and pushing you all alone into a classroom of 30 kids: “Just stay a chapter ahead of them in the textbook and they’ll all think you know what you’re talking about.”
pony21 Premium Member about 4 years ago
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 4 years ago
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Frazz14 hrs · Just because I’m willing to swim as far as I can in uncomfortably cold water if that’s what it takes to do the swims I want to swim doesn’t mean I’m good at it. If I can catch a break and do that same swim in warmer water, I’m all for it, as long as I don’t think too much about the causes and planetary consequences of all that trapped heat.But I’ll think about my own personal consequences. The Great Lakes really didn’t freeze over much this year. Like, hardly at all. And my first thought, once I got done worrying about the planet, was, “hey, I wonder if that’s going to make it a little warmer for this year’s swim across the Straits.” Of course, the past two years the water in the Straits was veritably balmy, and those winters had a ton of ice. So maybe it doesn’t work like I thought it worked. Ice is a pretty good insulator, after all, and maybe it keeps the water below it actually a bit warmer. And then there’s the matter of just how much water is in those lakes. They’re at, and predicted to stay at, record high levels, and I don’t know what that does to the overall water temperature. It was all too much to think about, so I went with polar bears.