Strategies for Industrial Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering

Quoted in chapter 8 of The Science of Success:

Doctors of [the 15th century] kept their secrets locked in languages their patients could not read. To attack this citadel demanded a willingness to defy the canons of respectability, to uproot oneself from the university community and from the guild. Such a venture required as much passion as knowledge, and more daring than prudence. To open the way, a man needed the knowledge of a professional and yet not be committed to the profession. He should be in the physician’s world but not of it.

—Daniel Boorstin

Related posts:

1. Notes on The Science of Success Chapter 5: Knowledge Processes