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Everything starts as somebody's dream.
— Larry Niven
The luck of Teela Brown.
— Larry Niven
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
— Larry Niven
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
— Larry Niven
In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
— Larry Niven
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
— Larry Niven
Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.) There
— Larry Niven
The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
— Larry Niven
The hammer has fallen.
— Larry Niven
Humans," said the puppeteer, "should not be allowed to run loose. You will surely harm yourselves.
— Larry Niven
Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.
— Larry Niven
Cliff shrugged. None of their ideas sounded
— Larry Niven
Heat is produced as a waste product of civilization." "I
— Larry Niven
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
— Larry Niven
In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.
— Larry Niven
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
— Larry Niven
Remember the Finagle Laws. The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. The universe is hostile." "But
— Larry Niven
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
The majority is always sane
— Larry Niven
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. - Robert A. Heinlein
— Larry Niven
The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum
— Larry Niven
Nessus sprawled bonelessly in his couch. He looked ridiculously, ludicrously comfortable.
— Larry Niven
But you've never even been as far as the Moon.
— Larry Niven
Sometimes the only way to call attention to bad construction was to set fire to the building.
— Larry Niven
Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
— Larry Niven
It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.
— Larry Niven
LARRY NIVEN is best known as a science-fiction writer.
— Neil Gaiman
A civilization has the ethics it can afford
— Larry Niven
Anything that can go wrong, will
— Larry Niven
I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?"He shook his head.
"Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless. — Larry Niven
1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man. — Larry Niven
Stupidity is always a capital crime.
— Larry Niven
Any damn fool can predict the past.
— Larry Niven
I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
— Larry Niven
We learn only to ask more questions.
— Larry Niven
Never tell a computer to forget it.
— Larry Niven
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
— Larry Niven
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
— Larry Niven
I don't have a strong interest in history.
— Larry Niven
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
— Larry Niven
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
— Larry Niven
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
— Larry Niven
I love superconductors.
— Larry Niven
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
— Larry Niven
Fear is the brother of hate.
— Larry Niven
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
— Larry Niven
Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.
— Larry Niven
Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
— Larry Niven
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
— Larry Niven
Ethics change with technology.
— Larry Niven
Fear is the brother of hate. One
— Larry Niven
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
— Larry Niven
There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.
— Larry Niven
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
— Larry Niven
Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.
— Larry Niven
Meet Crazy Eddie
— Larry Niven
If you can heat some bourbon, I can drink it," said the kzin. "If you cannot heat it, I can still drink it." "Nessus?
— Larry Niven
Never fire a laser at a mirror.
— Larry Niven
