[AntiKev]

My favourite Heinlein quote of all time:

“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.”
- Lazarus Long, in Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

It describes my worldview to a tee.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I’d rather have a ‘specialist’ operating on my brain than someone who ‘has studied neuro surgery’ and splits his time between studying computer programming and manure composting.

There’s a difference between being a ‘specialist’ because you are of such a low order of insect that you are incapable of any advanced reasoning and only do what you are pre-programmed by instinct to do and specializing because you have such incredible powers of learning, reasoning, and retention that you remove a tumor from someone’s brain and save their life.

[KarlInOhio]

Hopefully with a lot of hand washing between those steps.

[JamesP81]

It describes my worldview to a tee.

I'm with you on that count.

[Dr.Deth]

Bump that.

[roaddog727]

“My favourite Heinlein quote of all time:

“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.”
- Lazarus Long, in Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

It describes my worldview to a tee.”

As it does for me.

[xzins]

I agree. Great quote.

Heinlein was always a favorite. I didn’t begin thinking politcally for a decade or 2 after reading Heinlein. Maybe I should read him again. I do know that Laz Long was my favorite of his characters.

[jjm2111]

My favourite Heinlein quote of all time:

“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.”
- Lazarus Long, in Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein

It describes my worldview to a tee.
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Mine too.

[Just another Joe]

The thing I remember taking away from Heinlein books was the fact that weapons, including firearms, were great things, but don't depend on them exclusively.
The brain was the greatest weapon you had.