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		sabat on Nov 15, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I feel like a fraud Just because you read a book, and wrote a few blog posts doesn't make you an expert! Or it does make you an expert, but "expert" doesn't mean what we think it means. ;-)

redcap on Nov 16, 2010 [–]

My dad always said that "x is an unknown quantity, and a spurt is a drip under pressure".

I tend to take self-professed "experts" with a grain of salt.

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