“Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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