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by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966
Who uses, recommends or left The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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I still consider 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' to be my favorite book and the blueprint for what should have followed.
Year-end reflection on growing up with the space age and the return to the Moon.
2022-12-30·waynehale.wordpress.com ↗
AI was in the air in the mid 1980s, but there were two things especially that made me want to work on it: a novel by Heinlein called The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
'What I Worked On' (dated February 2021, no day given), on why he went into AI; he adds that when he read it he 'was drawn entirely into its world'.
2021-02-01·paulgraham.com ↗
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