Robert A. Heinlein on Creativity
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, catalogued under creativity, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #236151: "I’m not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool."
Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #22300: "Every technology goes through three stages: first a crudely simple and quite unsatisfactory gadget; second, an enormously complicated group of gadgets designed to overcome the sho…"
3 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein on Creativity
"I’m not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool."
"Every technology goes through three stages: first a crudely simple and quite unsatisfactory gadget; second, an enormously complicated group of gadgets designed to overcome the shortcomings of the original and achieving thereby somewhat satisfactory performance through extremely complex compromise; third, a final proper design therefrom."
"I carried out my purpose: War and Peace, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, and so forth. Would you believe it? Something is gained in translation; the originals are even more depressing and soporific than translations. I’m not sure what purpose Russian fiction has, but it can’t be entertainment."