Larry Niven Quotes
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And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
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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 don't have a strong interest in history.
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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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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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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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8) History never repeats itself.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.
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5) Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.
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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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Fear is the brother of hate.
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19) Think before you make the coward's choice. Old age is not for sissies.
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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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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To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
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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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Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat. Ramrobots had been first visitors to all the settled worlds. The interstellar ramscoop robots, with an unrestricted fuel supply culled from interstellar hydrogen, could travel between stars at speeds approaching that of light.
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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.