Quotes from book

By His Bootstraps

“He thought of a way to state it: Ego is the point of consciousness, the latest term in a continuously expanding series along the line of memory duration. That sounded like a general statement, but he was not sure; he would have to try to formulate it mathematically before he could trust it. Verbal language had such queer booby traps in it.”

Robert A. Heinlein book By His Bootstraps

By His Bootstraps (p. 257)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“In Wilson’s scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.”

Robert A. Heinlein book By His Bootstraps

By His Bootstraps (p. 238)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“Bob Wilson admitted to himself that a Ph. D. and an appointment as an instructor was not his idea of existence. Still, it beat working for a living.”

Robert A. Heinlein book By His Bootstraps

By His Bootstraps (p. 234)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)