“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble -… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said… — 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
