Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
fighting religion strange
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.
people sense-of-humor honest
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.
world breakfast ends
One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.
breakfast evaluation chance
In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
battle price-of-freedom willingness
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.
mistress looks problem
when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
mean experience ends
Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
authority disaster permit
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
attitude sacrifice emotional
Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.
anything-worth-doing bigs bites
Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
children inspirational-life chinese
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
tired people accomplished
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
political politics strategy
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
government sick police
I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces -- with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way the government sticks its nose into everything now.