Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

• Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  People, Sense Of Humor, Honest

• Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Technology, Computer

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.89, Hachette UK

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