Comments on: Quote of the Day http://www.geekandproud.net/archives/2002/12/26/39/quote-of-the-day/ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Michael http://www.geekandproud.net/archives/2002/12/26/39/quote-of-the-day/#comment-8 Michael Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.geekandproud.net/archives/2002/12/26/39/quote-of-the-day/#comment-8 That one's good, but I like this one the best: There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statue or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back. -Robert Heinlein, Life Line, 1939 That one's good, but I like this one the best:

There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statue or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

-Robert Heinlein, Life Line, 1939

]]> By: apenner http://www.geekandproud.net/archives/2002/12/26/39/quote-of-the-day/#comment-9 apenner Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.geekandproud.net/archives/2002/12/26/39/quote-of-the-day/#comment-9 Yeah, I like that one too. Yeah, I like that one too.

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