THE GREAT SHOWDOWN

[Icebreaker]

PLEASE PICK ONE. YOUR PARTICIPATION IS APPRECIATED.

[Bayen]

*cries*

They're all so good!!

[Kaiser Loki III]

They are all extraordinary.

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 A. Heinlein

Words to live by.

[Chrimigules]

Robert Heinlein might get one of the US's latest destroyers named after him.

[Erik Mortis]

I never found Clarke that particularly spectacular. Asimov I loved. Heinlein I never read.

[Maksym Hadjimehmetov]

Asimov is Ashkenazi. His father owned a candy shop. He's known as Doctor A by his fans.

How can you not vote for a man with as luscious whiskers as these!

[Andreas the Wise]

I've read Asimov, he's awesome.

[Harald of Froyalan]

He indeed is.

[Kaiser Loki III]

I take nothing away from Asimov, one of the most brilliant and prolific writers of the previous century. I just had to post one of my favorite quotes. I get a lot of mileage out of "Specialization is for insects."

Clarke was brilliant, but in a different way.

[Maksym Hadjimehmetov]

Asimov was just so tongue-in-cheek about his own literary genius/utter madness...
I have to say, I like Buy Jupiter best!

[Kaiser Loki III]

He was never afraid of self-satire. I remember a column he wrote about (i think) memory, when, as a young student, he ended up using the name O'Asimov for an hour or two. I believe the situation involved an Irish lass.

[Maksym Hadjimehmetov]

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn´t brood. I´d type a little faster

Asimov. Legend.