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Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.
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From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.
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'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.
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Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
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Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
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