Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
—Robert A. Heinlein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Don’t ever become a pessimist … a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Go ahead. Go right ahead. Don’t let me discourage you. Any objections from me would simply confirm your preconceptions.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
—Robert A. Heinlein
I think my cat has been reading Heinlein. When I opened the door to let her out this morning, she took one look at the global warming falling on the yard and gave me that you’ve-opened-the-wrong-door look.
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Victor Davis Hanson has a post worth reading over at PJ Media called Strangers in a Stranger Land.
After reading it, I sense that Prof. Hanson does not grok President Obama’s “truth.”
These are the narratives that for purposes of social justice now become reality, but tomorrow, next week, next month, next year?
Who knows? “Truth,” after all, is not the Socratic absolute, but a socially constructed commodity, defined by power and predicated on race, class, and gender, concerns that can be made to serve the greater good, if adjudicated by — well, again, fill in the blanks.
Progress doesn’t come from early risers—progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
—Robert A. Heinlein