Larry Niven Quotes
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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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Matthew Leiah Keller sat beneath a watershed tree and brooded. Other children played all around him, but they ignored Matt. So did two teachers on monitor duty. People usually ignored Matt when he wanted to be alone. Uncle Matt was gone. Gone to a fate so horrible that the adults wouldn't even talk about it.
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The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
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The bleeding-heart symbol does not represent any known revolutionary organization. … Yes, the bleeding heart was something else again. A gruesome symbol on a vivarium floor. Fingers that broke without their owner noticing. An ink drawing appearing from nowhere on a dossier cover, like a signature. A signature.
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Drugs: 'There’s no way to keep them from getting in. Anyone who wants drugs can get them. We make arrests where we can, and so what? Me, I’m betting on Darwin.''How do you mean?''The next generation won’t use drugs because they’ll be descended from people who had better sense.'
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I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.
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5) Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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10) Anarchy is the least stable of social structures.
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The majority is always sane.
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Rod privately suspected the Scots studied their speech off duty so they’d be unintelligible to the rest of humanity.
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The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
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Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.
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11) There is a time and place for tact. And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced.
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1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.
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The morning was blacker than the inside of a smoker’s lungs.
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7) Any damn fool can predict the past.
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He liked everything about the university except the students.
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It had been a long dull evening, with only the thought of leaving the party early to look forward to.
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2) Never be embarrased or ashamed about anything you choose to write. (Think of this before you send it to a market)
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As I said, it was inevitable, and I don’t let laws of nature upset me.
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Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.
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Gambling was safer than war. More fun, too. Best of all, it gave him better odds.
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In a universe the size of ours almost anything that can happen, will.