Another favorite book is Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. The whole series, really. Here’s a quote: 📚💬 #mbmay

… such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it!

Here’s an amusing meta-quote from Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love, which was one of my all-time favorite books as a kid: 📚💬 #mbmay

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of — but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

I have lots of favorite quotes from Heinlein books, but enjoy this one from Time Enough for Love: 💬 #mbmay

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

A quote from Piers Anthony’s Wielding a Red Sword (book four of the Incarnations of Immortality series): 💬 #mbmay

The consequence of one’s actions should be a concern of every person, on the social as well as the legal level.

A longer quote today for 💬 #mbmay from Robert A. Heinlein’s To Sail Beyond the Sunset, that really resonates with me:

Happiness … lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing.

One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labour mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result.

Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Another fave Douglas Adams quote: 💬 #mbmay

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

A favorite quote from Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, that I say or at least think pretty much every week: 💬 #mbmay

This must be Thursday … I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

A favorite quote from Robert A. Heinlein’s Farnham’s Freehold: 💬 #mbmay

No one ever does anything but what he wants to do — ‘enjoys’ — within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it’s because I enjoy it more than being stranded.

A favorite quote from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books: 💬 #mbmay

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Actually, I should have gone with perhaps my favorite Star Wars quote: 💬 #mbmay

…you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

— Obi-Wan Kenobi