The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.
I don't have a strong interest in history.
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.
The majority is always sane.
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.
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
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.
Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.
Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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!
I love superconductors.
If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.
Anything that can go wrong, will
Never tell a computer to forget it.
It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.
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.
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