[ExI] Master of many trades

[John Grigg]

"WWAS?"


What would Anders say?


John  ; )


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Tomasz Rola <rtomek at ceti.pl> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
> >
> http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/anyone-can-learn-to-be-a-polymath/
>
> > Master of many trades
>
> > Our age reveres the narrow specialist but humans are natural polymaths,
> > at our best when we turn our minds to many things
>
> "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."
>  Robert Heinlein,
>
> Hoooly fork, I am almost a human being. Now I have a motivation. Will
> improve. That's a nice goal to have.
>
> Regards,
> Tomasz Rola
>
> --
> ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature.      **
> ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home    **
> ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened...      **
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