Over and over again financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over they ignobly fail because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal ' the 'New York Times ' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

Try try try and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding but also approached art emotionally.

It was Public Art defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Observe record tabulate communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see learn to hear learn to feel learn to smell and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.