Larry Niven Quotes - Page 3

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• I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.

  Larry Niven

  War, People, Trying

  "A Gift from Earth". Book by Larry Niven, 1968.

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• Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

  Larry Niven

  Thinking, Sea, Water

  Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle (1991). “The Mote in God's Eye”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Stupidity is always a capital crime.

  Larry Niven

  Stupidity, Crime

  "N-Space". Book by Larry Niven, 1989.

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• The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

  Larry Niven

  Giving Up, Looks, Constant

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

  Larry Niven

  Strong, Interest

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.361, Macmillan

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

  Larry Niven

  Years, Names, Six

  Concat interview, www.concatenation.org. 1988.

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• In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.

  Larry Niven

  Collaboration

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

  Larry Niven

  Inspiration, Pops, Knows

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• Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

  Larry Niven

  Book, Add, Bags

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• 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

  Moon, Technique, Want

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.361, Macmillan

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• Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

  Larry Niven

  Mother, Fun, Care

  Larry Niven (1984). “Niven's Laws”, Owlswick Press

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• If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.

  Larry Niven

  Magic, Should, Tricks

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

  Larry Niven

  Education System

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.361, Macmillan

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• Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

  Larry Niven

  Paper, Beats, Expensive

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• I love superconductors.

  Larry Niven

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• Never tell a computer to forget it.

  Larry Niven

  Computer, Forget, Forget It

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

  Larry Niven

  Technology, Space, Should Have

  Space.com Interview with S. James Blackman, February 10, 2000.

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• I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

  Larry Niven

  Predicting

  Interview with S. James Blackman, space.com, February 10, 2000.

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• It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

  Larry Niven

  Writing, Sin, Cardinals

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

  Larry Niven

  Kicking, Stories, Six

  Concat interview, www.concatenation.org. 1988.

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

  Larry Niven

  People, Brighter

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.361, Macmillan

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

  Larry Niven

  Art, Taught, Form

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.362, Macmillan

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

  Larry Niven

  Writing, Stories, Mars

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.362, Macmillan

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• The majority is always sane.

  Larry Niven

  Majority, Sane

  Larry Niven (2014). “Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One”, p.212, Macmillan

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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.

  Larry Niven

  Psychics, Long, People

  "A Gift From Earth". Book by Larry Niven, 1968.

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