Larry Niven Quotes
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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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8) History never repeats itself.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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19) Think before you make the coward's choice. Old age is not for sissies.
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To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
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She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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3) Stories to end all stories on a given topic, don't.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.
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The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
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I love superconductors.
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Jesus Pietro was worried. The Sons of Earth, if they got this far, would go straight to the vivarium to free their compatriots. But if Matthew Keller was his own agent... If the ghost of Alpha Plateau was not a rebel, but a thing with its own unpredictable purpose... Jesus Pietro worried.