Larry Niven Quotes
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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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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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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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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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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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She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.
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8) History never repeats itself.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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Anyone who says human nature can’t be changed is out of his head. To make it stick, he’s got to define human nature-and he can’t.
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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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Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.
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5) Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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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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Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.
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'It’s a nitwit idea.''Yes, sir.''Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.'
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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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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6) It is easier to destroy than create. Bin Laden tore down the World Trade Center? Let's see him build one. If human beings didn't have a strong preference for creation, nothing would get built, ever.
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Fear is the brother of hate.
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3) Stories to end all stories on a given topic, don't.