The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

You listening, Bog? Is a computer one of Your creatures?

We hit them so hard you could see it, by bare eyeball hookup; didn't need binox. Chin dropped and I said, "Bojemoi!" softly and reverently.

We shall fight them."
"DA!"
"We shall fight them on the surface, we shall fight them in the tubes, we shall fight them in the corridors! If die we must, we shall die free!"
"Yes! Ja-da! Tell 'em, tell 'em!"
"And if we die, let history write: This was Luna's finest hour! Give us liberty... or give us death!"

Women are amazing creatures--sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.

"Soul?" Does a dog have a soul? How about cockroach?

so let's find out what they did before we judge what they've done.

Line marriage is the strongest possible device for conserving capital and insuring the welfare of children--the two basic societal functions for marriage everywhere--in an enviroment in which there is no security, neither for capital nor for children, other than that devised by individuals. Somehow human beings always cope with their environments. Line marriage is a remarkably successful invention to that end. All other Lunar forms of marriage serve that same purpose, though not as well."

Manuel, once there was a man who held a political make-work job like so many here in this Directorate, shining brass cannon around a courthouse."
"Why would courthouse have cannon?"
"Never mind. He did this for years. It fed him and let him save a bit, but he was not getting ahead in the world. So one day he quit his job, drew out his savings, bought a brass cannon--and went into business for himself."

Fedoseev, Choy Lin and Choy Mu