Robert A. Heinlein: Thing
Robert A. Heinlein was American science fiction author. Explore interesting quotes on thing.“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”
Time Enough for Love (1973)
Variant: Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
“If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)”
Variant: Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Source: Time Enough for Love
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 2
Guest of Honor Speech at the 29th World Science Fiction Convention, Seattle, Washington (1961)
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Context: I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!
“I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.”
Variant: I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)
Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 10 (p. 129)
Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 5 (p. 57)
“He’ll pay no mind to me anyhow,” MacRae answered. “That’s the healthy thing about kids.”
Source: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 9, “Politics”, p. 133