>>”I saw my lack of background as a strength.”<<
TV Writer or POTUS or SoS?
Red Dwarf ping!
RIMMER Yeah, but what do you know? Your a chicken soup machine repairman, not Hank Handsome, Space Adventurer. Don't get ideas above your station, and your station is Git Central.
LISTER Hey, I've been surviving in space five - six years. When it comes to weirdy, paradoxy space stuff, I've bought the t-shirt.
KRYTEN He bought it and I ironed it for him.
LISTER Exactly.
RIMMER So, you're saying the future's the future and, like your underpants, the chances of change are remote? Well, I'm sorry, I don't accept it.
LISTER Hey, I'm not happy about it, man.
CAT None of us are. You dying is the last think we want, especially me. Hell, I'd probably have to help dig the hole.
RIMMER Right, so to summarise: six years of space adventuring, six years of experience and knowledge, has led you to the conclusion that I'm totally stuffed?
KRYTEN Mister Rimmer has a point, sir. Your greater knowledge is making you pessimistic, while his ignorance and almost doe-like naivety is keeping his mind receptive to a possible solution.
LISTER Shut your stupid, flat head, you.
[KRYTEN shrinks under LISTER's admonition, but KOCHANSKI has picked up on something, and sounds intrigued]
KOCHANSKI So, you're saying, when you don't know enough... to *know* that you don't know enough, there's no fear holding you back? You can achieve things which people with more brains can't?
KRYTEN Precisely.
[KOCHANSKI smirks in RIMMER's direction]
KOCHANSKI He's got the 'power of ignorance'...
KRYTEN And with ignorance that he's got, that makes him one of the most powerful men that's ever lived! Harness your stupidity, sir; employ your witlessness, use your empty-headed, simplistic moron-mind and find a solution.
[RIMMER's face hardens defiantly]
RIMMER Okay! I've got an idea.