Larry Niven Quotes
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I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
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There is never no hope left. Remember.
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There was this about him: he knew who I was, but he hadn’t remembered my name. Ron Cole had better things to think about than what name belonged with whom. A name was only a tag and a conversational gambit.
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For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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I asked him, 'Do you know the difference between nude and naked?'He shook his head.'Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.'
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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Parlette spoke slowly and evenly. 'I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.'
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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9) Ethics change with technology.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers … What they really hate are lousy programmers.
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3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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I don't have a strong interest in history.