Larry Niven Quotes

SF isn't a genre.. view

By: Larry Niven

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language.. view

By: Larry Niven

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes... view

By: Larry Niven

I'm not predicting.. view

By: Larry Niven

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them... view

By: Larry Niven

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself... view

By: Larry Niven

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up... view

By: Larry Niven

Treat your life like something to be sculpted... view

By: Larry Niven

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built... view

By: Larry Niven

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... view

By: Larry Niven

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works... view

By: Larry Niven

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names... view

By: Larry Niven

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists... view

By: Larry Niven

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.. view

By: Larry Niven

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it... view

By: Larry Niven

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational... view

By: Larry Niven

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper... view

By: 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.. view

By: Larry Niven

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen... view

By: Larry Niven

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form... view

By: Larry Niven

Everything starts as somebody's daydream... view

By: Larry Niven

I do not believe they've run out of surprises... view

By: Larry Niven

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad... view

By: Larry Niven

I don't have a strong interest in history... view

By: Larry Niven

I love superconductors... view

By: Larry Niven

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up... view

By: Larry Niven