Robert A. HeinleinThinkers

Breakfast is essential. One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

Censorship is like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

A Committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

Courage is not always correlated with judgement. If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Delusion is often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

An Elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

An Engineer is someone who can build for a dollar what any damn fool can build for ten.

The Expert is always to be listened to. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then you can go ahead and do it.