The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana Quotes

“There are a number of people who can't seem to realize that things could be mighty rough—even rougher than they are now—if there wasn't the slightest bit of deterrence.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Robert Heinlein Interview And Other Heinleiniana

“Everything that NASA does—from the start by law—was to be open and unclassified and it has been. This is one of the things that I have cited—and that Arthur Clarke has cited—as being a payoff on the space program right now. Expensively as they've done it, nevertheless all that bread cast on the waters has already come back severalfold in the way of unclassified new technology that doesn't even have patents on it. You can get these things and you can use them all you please. I know that a lot of people are not aware of this but anyone in engineering that has any engineering interest is likely to be aware of it if he has taken the trouble to have himself placed on the mailing list.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Robert Heinlein Interview And Other Heinleiniana

“our civilization is very young. None of us live long enough to cope with too much. About the time we begin to get our thoughts straightened out we begin to go senile. Or, in the mean time, we've been knocked over by a taxicab or died of the plague or something else. We don't live that long.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Robert Heinlein Interview And Other Heinleiniana

“Not that thick book called The Purpose of Your Life. You get that one later. These are "How To" manuals. Each is called Getting By When You're Up The Creek Without a Paddle, Fighting Back When You're Sick of Getting Pushed Around, Love—What It is and How to Survive It, or How to Keep From Going Crazy When Everyone Around You Already Is.”
― J. Neil Schulman, The Robert Heinlein Interview And Other Heinleiniana