Status Updates From The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

“Go ahead, say it your way. Use my voice and my authority as Minister of Defense and acting head of government. Do it, Mike, throw rocks at ’em! Damn it, big rocks! Hit ’em hard!”

“Righto, Man!”

-Heinlein, Robert A. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

"Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with sense of humor."

-Heinlein, Robert A. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

"TOOK STU ALL day to get case transferred to an F.N. court and dismissed."

-Heinlein, Robert A. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

'“In Congress assembled, July Fourth, Twenty-Seventy-Six—”

Was beautiful.'

-Heinlein, Robert A. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

"APRIL AND MAY ’76 were more hard work and increasing effort to stir up Loonies against Warden, and goad him into retaliation. Trouble with Mort the Wart was that he was not a bad egg, nothing to hate about him other than fact he was symbol of Authority; was necessary to frighten him to get him to matter of ritual but was not stuff that makes revolutionists; he couldn’t be bothered."

-Heinlein, Robert.

Struggling with this one , not enjoying it, may drop

"WERE CHANGES IN those eleven months. Wyoh was baptized into Greg’s church, Prof’s health became so shaky that he dropped teaching, Mike took up writing poetry. Yankees finished in cellar."

-Heinlein, Robert A., The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

“I have tried and tried, checked and checked. There is but one chance in seven of winning!”

-Heinlein, Robert A,. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

“So? Well, it was bound to come someday. Everything else has been mechanized.” I gave proper response and added, “Everything?” She looked up. “Please. Don’t whistle while I’m reading.”

-Heinlein, Robert A., The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

'“You asked what I knew.” His binary read-out lights rippled back and forth—a chuckle. Mike could laugh with voder, a horrible sound, but reserved that for something really funny, say a cosmic calamity.'

-Heinlein, Robert A., The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.