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
life success inspire
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ideas niche sweeping
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
artist obscurity use
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
wisdom mind-your-own-business ninety
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
sex crowds affair
Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially.
son self common-sense
Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common".
running religion way
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
money men problem
Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.
eight race government
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
pay jolly
Anything free is worth what you pay for it.
bird moral manners
The early worm deserves the bird.
eggs space race
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.
sex things-in-life people
I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
thinking law prudes
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.