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
cat men bed
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
life motivational atheist
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
country thinking years
I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
art emotional self
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
talking prove-it prove
If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
cat protocol kitty-cat
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
running long cost
Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.
fighting ifs has-beens
But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
country men years
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute not common law. Neither individuals not corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
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.