Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Lying, Thinking

  Introduction to "Cliff and the Calories" in "Expanded Universe" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 355), 1980.

• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Smart, Stupid, Home

• Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Odds, Understanding, Delay

  "Time Enough for Love" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace, (p. 334), August 1988.

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