““You have us going faster than light.”
“I thought the figures were a bit large.””

—  Robert A. Heinlein, book The Rolling Stones

Source: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 8, “The Mighty Room” (p. 100)

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Robert A. Heinlein557
American science fiction author 1907–1988

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