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Quotes: Crippling Over Specialization
It's simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.
Major Motoko Kusanagi, Ghost in the Shell

This was not done by blaculas, but I'm not willing to rule out Caucasian vampires.
Jefferson Twilight, Blacula Hunter, The Venture Brothers

The Spy: Haw Haw! What are you going to do, run five miles away and shoot me?
The Sniper: Ye- No... (How did he know?)

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas Murray Butler

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.

Let no way be my way.

I built a comp-sci major and the game locked me in a room with a robo-bully and his fully automatic arm cannon.
Penny Arcade, on the boss battles in Deus Ex Human Revolution

He who is skilled with a hammer thinks everything is a nail.
Abraham Maslow


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