Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.
Robert A. HeinleinMots clés linguistics
The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.
Robert A. HeinleinGovernment! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)
Robert A. HeinleinWomen talk when they want to. Or don't.
Robert A. HeinleinStupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
Robert A. HeinleinMots clés stupidity
God created men to test the souls of women.
Robert A. HeinleinEvery general prohibition creates its bootleggers.
Robert A. HeinleinAnything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
Robert A. HeinleinMots clés money motivation engineering
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured...the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked to him with a stick. If you disturb the patient at such time, he may break into tears or become violent.
Robert A. HeinleinThere 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 or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
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