Larry Niven Quotes
"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Medical, Future, Language, Moon, Talk, Visit, Want)
"We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Mistakes)
"I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Love)
"I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them."
- Larry Niven
"I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Life, People)
"In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Inspiration, Will)
"Treat your life like something to be sculpted."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Life)
"We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Space)
"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Government, Wealth, Chance, Gain, Sea)
"I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Education)
"My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Names, Right, Writers, Years)
"In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Society, Hindsight, May, Will)
"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."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Childhood, Disease, Population)
"The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it."
- Larry Niven
(Related: War, Years)
"I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational."
- Larry Niven
(Related: People, Will)
"Anything beats an expensive stack of paper."
- Larry Niven
"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!"
- Larry Niven
(Related: Publicity, Writer)
"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Building, Space)
"But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Art, Life)
"Everything starts as somebody's daydream."
- Larry Niven
"I do not believe they've run out of surprises."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Surprises)
"I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Privacy)
"I don't have a strong interest in history."
- Larry Niven
(Related: History, Interest)
"I love superconductors."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Love)
"And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Friend, Pretty, Writing)