This post brings to mind this snippet:

“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 and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

–Robert A. Heinlein (found in the “Intermissions” of Time Enough for Love, and in the separately published Notebooks of Lazarus Long)