United States, Writer April 30, 1938
Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards.
Also known as Screenwriter, Science Fiction Writer
Here is where the predictions failed: We didn't take Cargo Cult mentality into account: 'if somebody has something I don't, he must have stolen it.' We didn't understand how good we could get at communication - when you have something that someone else doesn't, the whole damn planet knows it.
And that’s another reason I don’t want contact between your species and mine. You’re all Crazy Eddies. You think every problem has a solution.
In a universe the size of ours almost anything that can happen, will.
As I said, it was inevitable, and I don’t let laws of nature upset me.
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