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- From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: Re: Is it OK to be stupid?+
- Message-ID: <ocygwB4w165w@cybrspc.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 19:37:11 CST
- References: <1992Dec26.192530.25816@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
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- steve@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve (PrettyBoy) Barclay) writes:
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- > Can anyone recall exactly what the quote was from Heinlein, and in what
- > book? It was something along the lines of:
- >
- > "Stupidity has it's own punishment. The sentence is death, and it is carried
- > our immediately, without opportunity for appeal."
-
- It's in "Time Enough for Love", in the Notebooks of Lazarus Long:
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- "Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by
- legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being
- stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence
- is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically
- and without pity."
- --
- Roy M. Silvernail -- roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu - OR- cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu
- "I'm a family man, model citizen."
- -- Warren Zevon
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