Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

“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.”

“Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.”

“Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get.”

“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”

“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”

“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”