Frases célebres de Robert Anson Heinlein
Fuente: Tiempo para amar (1973).
Fuente: Glory Road (1963).
Robert Anson Heinlein Frases y Citas
“Una sociedad armada es una sociedad educada.”
Fuente: Beyond This Horizon (1942)
Fuente: La línea de la vida (1939).
Original en inglés: «Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst».
Fuente: Starship Troopers, (1959).
“Escuche siempre a los expertos. Le dirán lo que no puede hacerse y por qué. ¡Luego hágalo!!”
Fuente: [Zelinski], Ernie J. 101 cosas que ya sabes, pero siempre olvidas, p. 102. Editorial AMAT, 2012. https://books.google.es/books?id=vOLIXDVy_m8C&pg=PA125&dq=%22Henry+Miller%22+dijo&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis7u7a0tfiAhXK8OAKHRtXBWEQ6AEIVDAI#v=onepage&q=%22Henry%20Miller%22%20dijo&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 7 de junio de 2019.
Robert Anson Heinlein: Frases en inglés
“Remember, though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp—provided it’s loaded.”
Fuente: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 1, “The Marching Hordes” (p. 14)
“A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.”
Fuente: Time Enough for Love
“God created men to test the souls of women.”
Fuente: Job: A Comedy of Justice
“I came, I saw, she conquered."
The original Latin seems to have been garbled.”
Fuente: Time Enough for Love
“Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.”
Fuente: Time Enough for Love
“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
Fuente: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 16 (p. 235)
“Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”
Fuente: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Variante: I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
Fuente: Stranger in a Strange Land
“He's an honest politician--he stays bought.”
Fuente: Stranger in a Strange Land
“My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”
Fuente: Between Planets
“Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.”
Fuente: Starship Troopers
“I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.”
Fuente: Stranger in a Strange Land
“To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.”
Fuente: Starship Troopers
“Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.”
Fuente: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.”
Fuente: Time Enough for Love
“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.”
Fuente: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.”
Fuente: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”
Glory Road (1963)
Contexto: 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.