Larry Niven Quotes
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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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5) Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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9) Ethics change with technology.
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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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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers … What they really hate are lousy programmers.
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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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Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.
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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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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
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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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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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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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I love superconductors.
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Fear is the brother of hate.
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There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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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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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.