Fortune Quote #614

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Lazarus Long
(Robert A. Heinlein)

Fortune Quote #613

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive
wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub
together. -- Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein)

Fortune Quote #612

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is
a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make
messes in the house. -- Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein)

Fortune Quote #611

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo
sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
-- Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein)

Fortune Quote #610

A man does not insist on physical beauty in a woman who builds up his
morale. After a while he realizes she IS beautiful--he just hadn't noticed
it at first. -- Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein)

Fortune Quote #609

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects. -- Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein)

Fortune Quote #608

A generation which ignores history has no past--and no future. --
Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein)

Fortune Quote #607

A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should
be shot on sight. -- Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein)

Fortune Quote #606

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as
dumb as the next guy. -- Richard Feynman

Fortune Quote #605

Here is a test to find out whether your mission on Earth is finished. If
you're alive, it isn't. -- Richard Bach