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
sex cat midnight
All cats are not gray after midnight.
firsts permit receipts
Drop dead-but first get permit
corporations individual clock
Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
money cost lifetime
Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.
god fall cat
It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.
husband wife important
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
sight giving perspective
Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.
morning should-have bird
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
order growth action
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
gratitude real selfishness
Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.
running thinking self
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.
trust skeptical
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
kings people age
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is 'the will of the people' ... but the problem changes only superficially.
government patents impossible
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.