“Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal - else a balancing takes place… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance -- — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
