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Ch. 6
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Ch. 6
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Ch. 8
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Ch. 8
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Ch. 9
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Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
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Concordance to Glory Road at The Heinlein Society
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Culturologists state a "law" of religious freedom which they say is invariant: Religious freedom in a cultural complex is inversely proportional to the strength of the strongest religion. This is supposed to be one case of a general invariant, that all freedoms arise from cultural conflicts because a custom which is not opposed by its negative is mandatory and always regarded as a "law of nature." Rufo didn't agree; he said his colleagues stated as equations things which are not mensurate and not definable — holes in their heads! — and that freedom was never more than a happy accident because the common jerk, all human races, hates and fears all freedom, not only for his neighbors but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.
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Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is — so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group. "But a democratic form of government is okay, as long as it doesn't work. Any social organization does well enough if it isn't rigid. The framework doesn't matter as long as there is enough looseness to permit that one man in a multitude to display his genius. Most so-called social scientists seem to think that organization is everything. It is almost nothing — except when it is a straitjacket. It is the incidence of heroes that counts, not the pattern of zeros.
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Disturbing the ecological balance is the worst mistake any government can make.
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Don't worry, customs are simple here. Primitive societies are always more complex than civilized ones — and this one isn't primitive.
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Fantasy books
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He smiled at his own wit. The old bastard always had thought he was a wit. He was half right.
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I knew, logically, that everything that had happened since I read that silly ad had been impossible. So I chucked logic.Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
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I asked him how advanced societies ran things.His brow wrinkled. “Mostly they don’t.”