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
talking prove-it prove
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
cat protocol kitty-cat
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
running long cost
Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.
fighting ifs has-beens
But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
country men years
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute not common law. Neither individuals not corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
enemy rooms ifs
If possible, leave room for your enemy to become your friend.
writing done authority
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
thinking survival tag
What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness intelligence among them.
tired decision hungry
Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.
sad jealousy learning
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
atheist government church
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
baby children learning
Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs
law schedules megalomania
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
lessons teach ifs
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.