Robert A. Heinlein Quotes:
Ocupation: Science writer
Life: July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988
Birthday: July 7
Death: May 8
Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.
source: Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc
topic: Latin, Simple, English Grammar, I Quit
