Robert A. Heinlein Centennial celebrations 2007 - be there

Buzz Aldrin and Arthur C Clarke will address the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial celebrations at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center & Westin Crown Center Kansas City, Missouri – July 6-7-8, 2007.

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Plus Short Fiction Writing Contest for the Heinlein Centennial - closing date - Midnight (12:00 a.m.), February 15, 2007.

Meanwhile a few of his well crafted apercus to drive you to re-rerad or have the exquisite joy of finding his stories and books for the first time.

"Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly."

“History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help."

"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.”

“No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.”

“To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.”

“Do steers sign treaties with meat packers?"

"Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events".

“A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.”

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”

“When one teaches, two learn.”

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics."

"The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history."

"God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills."

“Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.”

...and finally..

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. "

Californian writer John Scalzi will be there - more on his website