The book⌗

This will serve to store notes/insights/thoughts about Time Enough for Love

Quotes⌗

8- A society that gets rid of all the trouble makers goes downhill

10- The most sophisticated machine the human mind can build has in it the limitations of the human mind

20- I have no beliefs. Beliefs get on the way of learning

24- never take anybody’s word about whether a gun is loaded

31- If a man is greedy you can cheat him every time

54- progress doesn’t come from early risers. Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things

83- there doesn’t seem to be anything that a government can do to an economy that does not act as positive feedback, or as a break. Or both. Maybe somewhere someday someone will tinker with supply and demand to make it work better instead of letting it go its own cruel way.

113- don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is right more often than an optimist but an optimist has more fun. And neither can stop the march of events.

114- whores perform the same functions as priests but far more thoroughly

129- The trouble with defining in words anything as basic as love is that the definition can’t be understood by anyone who has not experienced it

165- By the law of Supply and Demand a thing has value from where it is as much as from what it is.

229- Privacy is as necessary as company; you can drive a man cray by depriving him of either.

259 - Never underestimate the power of human stupidity

281- as money came in the bank I’ve been burning it. It’s waste paper. As long as we keep account

317- the centuries may not give a man wisdom, but he acquires patience or he doesn’t live through them

Notes⌗