TANSTAAFL

[midgardsorm]

The little cafe down the street from our new place has a sign up that says:

There
ain't
no
such
thing
as
a
free
lunch.
I almost burst out laughing when I saw that. It is one of the most beloved sayings of of one of my favorite authors, Robert Heinlein. He even went so far as to abbreviate it as TANSTAAFL

Comments

[oddgrlout]

i wasnt aware that was a saying of r.a.h. TANSTAAFL is the first thing i learned in economics. and incidentally, the one thing i remember

[midgardsorm]

Yes, TANSTAAFL definitely applies to economics. *LOL* Heinlein talks about that in some of his books.

It also works as a concise rephrasing of the Laws of Thermodynamics, and thus applies to science and engineering... and the world in general.

In HS

[minabell]

My History Teacher also the schools football coach
always use to say that and its something I always
remember from that time ~