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
athlete thinking media
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.
men soul tests
God created men to test the souls of women.
way be-kind vote
Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.
weapons ears remember
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
blood liberty unalienable-rights
Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
thinking hands disaster
Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!
sex technology computer
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
song pain believe
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
vices vice-versa credibility
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
numbers members stupidest
To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.
reading ignorance self-confidence
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t fallen into the fatal folly of reading anything I could lay hands on. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.
sarcastic lying able
It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.
men animal rational
Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
jobs dad math
Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.