Larry Niven Quotes
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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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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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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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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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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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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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To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
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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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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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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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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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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
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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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Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.
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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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Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.
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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.'