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More With Less: Sea Technology:
"Now I began to get into doing more with less, sir, because back in my Navy days I had been trained as a line officer. It means that if your seniors are killed, you have to be able to take over-- not only the ship, but the fleet. In those days there was no contact with the central authority and you’d operate without-- therefore, you had to make your own decisions. And you’re really dealing in world. And we were trained to be comprehensivists instead of specialists in the Navy. It was the only place where they trained you to be comprehensivists instead of specialists.
"Now I was fascinated with having this man trained scientifically and involved with all these beautiful ships. Enormous power systems. And we could do anything. How did this happen? It was all on the basis of Malthus that there was the working assumption that there’d never be enough to go around, that it had to be Yours or Mine, it could not be both. And this was to take care of the showdown.
“And I said we had refrigeration on this ship-- we had refrigeration on the ship 25 years before it came up on the land. And we really had cream on the oatmeal in the morning-- an amazing”
