Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Luck

Quotes about: Luck

• Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Thinking, Creating

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

• There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Badass, Preparation, Luck

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

• To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Time, Men, Data

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.24, Penguin

• Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Accomplishment, Luck, Tag

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Puppet Masters”, p.264, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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