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
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.
men democracy assumption
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
years genius fifteen
I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius...
soon-enough life-after-death evidence
There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?
men volunteer important
My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
life hurt laughing
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.