“I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“That was smart, that was engineering: never reinvent something that you can buy down the street.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“I was not in bad health (aside from a cumulative hangover), I was still on the right side of thirty by a few days, and I was far from being broke. No police were looking for me, nor any husbands, nor any process servers; there was nothing wrong that a slight case of amnesia would not have cured.
But there was winter in my heart and I was looking for the door to summer. If I sound like a man with an acute case of self-pity, you are correct. There must have been well over two billion people on this planet in worse shape than I was. Nevertheless, I was looking for the Door into Summer.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“I had taken a partner once before-but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don’t civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“You can die anyplace. They’ve never managed to regulate that.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“Anywhere is home to the man with a fat bank account—the cops leave him alone.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“These people who deal in fancification to fool the public think nobody can read and write but themselves.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“Engineering is the art of the practical and depends more on the total state of the art than it does on the individual engineer. When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“There wasn’t any way to be safe; just being alive was deadly dangerous...fatal, in the end.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.” Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“Angeles was safe from invasion; the invaders wouldn’t find a place to park—I”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“I wanted us to get out of production. Jake Schmidt, our production shop master, was a good man; nevertheless I was forever being jerked out of a warm creative fog to straighten out bugs in production—which is like being dumped out of a warm bed into ice water. This was the real reason why I had been doing so much nightwork and staying away from the shop in the daytime.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“joking. A slave needs privileges to keep him quiet.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“-Brindemos por la raza femenina, Pet… ¡Encuéntralas y olvídalas!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“But I gathered that it was classified...by order of this Colonel, uh, Plushbottom.” “Thrushbotham. Thrushbotham, sir. A fat, fatuous, flatulent, foot-kissing fool incompetent to find his hat with it nailed to his head. Which it should have been.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“Брать взаймы – всё равно что плыть с камнем на шее.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“Мудрый человек должен быть в любое время готов остаться ни с чем.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
“Belle was not only a perfect secretary and office manager, she also had personal specs which would have delighted Praxiteles and a fragrance which affected me the way catnip does Pete.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from The Door Into Summer
Robert A. Heinlein
Born place: in Butler, MO, The United States
Born date July 7, 1907
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“For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“الحرية الايجابية تقوم في النشاط التلقائي للشخصية الكلية المتكاملة.
لقد قلنا ان الحرية السلبية بنفسها تجعل الفرد كائنا منعزلا وتكون علاقته بالعالم بعيدة ولا تقوم على الثقة والتي تكون نفسه ضعيفة مهددة باستمرار. والنشاط التلقائي هو النشاط الذي يستطيع به الانسان ان يقهر رعب الوحدة دون تضحية بتكامل النفس, ففي التحقق التلقائي للنفس يتحد الانسان من جديد بالعالم وبالانسان وبنفسه. والحب هو المركب الشديد لمثل هذه التلقائية, لا الحب بمعنى اذابة النفس في شخص آخر ولا الحب باعتباره تملكا لشخص آخر, بل الحب باعتباره التاكيد التلقائي للآخرين, باعتباره وحدة الفرد والآخرين على اساس الحفاظ على النفس الفردية. وتكمن الصفة الدينامية للحب في هذه القطبية نفسها: انه ينبع من الحاجة الى قهر الانفصال, انه يفضي الى الوحدة والاتحاد - ومع هذا لا نستأصل تلك الفردانية. والعمل هو المركب الآخر, لا العمل بمعنى النشاط الاضطراري للهرب من الوحدة, ولا العمل كعلاقة بالطبيعة التي تكون في جانب منها علاقة تسيد عليها وفي جانب آخر عبادة وعبودية لمنتجات ايدي الانسان, بل العمل كخلق حيث يصبح الانسان متحدا مع الطبيعة في فعل الخلق. وما يصدق على الحب والعمل يصدق على كل فعل تلقائي سواء كان تحقق لذة حسية او مشاركة في الحياة السياسية للجماعة. انه يؤكد لفردية النفس وفي الوقت نفسه يوحّد النفس بالانسان والطبيعة.
والسمة الاساسية الموجودة في الحرية - ميلاد الفردية والم الوحدة والعزلة- تنحل على مستوى اعلى عن طريق الفعل التلقائي للانسان.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“Baby, Heaven doesn't want me yet, and Fuck if Hell can handle me, so you're kinda stuck with me.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“From the depths of the well I had discovered a light above, and yearned to go up and see what all it shone upon. At last--ah, with what years of toil!--I stood in the perfect day, and beheld the principle of life, the element of religion, the link between the soul and God--Love!”
― Lew Wallace, quote from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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