Larry Niven Quotes
Top 85 wise famous quotes and sayings by Larry Niven
Larry Niven Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Larry Niven on Wise Famous Quotes.
Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.) There
The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.
Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.
Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
Remember the Finagle Laws. The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. The universe is hostile." "But
Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.
The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. - Robert A. Heinlein
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better
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.
If you can heat some bourbon, I can drink it," said the kzin. "If you cannot heat it, I can still drink it." "Nessus?
I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?"
He shook his head.
"Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.
He shook his head.
"Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.
1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.
1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.
1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.
There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
I see war as that insane enterprise wherein men dig up the riches of the earth and hurl them at one another. - ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH DANIEL HARRINGTON
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.
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.
Louis suggested that the ship be called 'Lying Bastard'. For their own reasons, Teela and Speaker agreed. For his own reason, Nessus did not object.