Specialization is for insects

cog on 2005-04-10T00:55:26

I once saw the following text and it never left my mind (but I still have trouble remembering all of it, of course):

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects".

- by Robert Heinlein.

Thought I should mention it.

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Aristotle on 2005-04-10T23:00:54

It's unlikely that any single human will ever manage to do all of those with any great effectiveness. The lyf so short, the crafte so longe to lerne…

I'll skip some of those

btilly on 2005-04-10T23:34:42

Pitching manure and dying gallantly are particularly low on my list of things to get around to...

Cheers,
Ben

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cog on 2005-04-11T09:26:36

I disagree :-)

Although the diapers... :-\