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
boss littles little-things
Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.
people type certain
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
intelligent organization spiders
The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.
boss may judgment
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.
daughter men law
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.
strong jobs men
...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.
writing order two
Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold
dog ifs
If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.
rain leaks roof
When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.
mistress instinct forbidden
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
order growth action
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.
believe proud united-states
I believe in - I am proud to belong to - the United States.
sex hate hands
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.
horse past engineering
The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.