Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Robert A Heinlein was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction"
Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Robert A Heinlein was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction". He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer...
Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Robert A Heinlein was an American novelist and science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction". He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer...
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Gems that caught my eye today while browsing Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts , the best book I've ever read about getting stuff done and following dreams: ... the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. - Robert Heinlein Quit now, you'll never make...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
If you ever read novels written by the late Robert Heinlein, you'd soon come across a character that was part scientist, part entrepreneur, part explorer, and wildly successful at all three. Of course, such people don't exist in real life, do they? Meet Elon Musk ( Wiki bio ). If the name doesn't ring a bell, odds are you or someone you know uses the now familiar online service he developed...
Heretical Ideas Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
“Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it’s subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.” – Robert Heinlein
