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Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write. — Larry Niven

Everything starts as somebody's dream. — Larry Niven

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

I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity! — Larry Niven

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. — Larry Niven

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

Humans," said the puppeteer, "should not be allowed to run loose. You will surely harm yourselves. — Larry Niven

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. — 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

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. — Larry Niven

Heat is produced as a waste product of civilization." "I — Larry Niven

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it. — 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

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. — 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

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf? — 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

Exercise is wonderful," said Louis. "I could sit and watch it all day. — Larry Niven

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper. — Larry Niven

The State has a superfluity of testicles, Peersa said with no particular emphasis. — Larry Niven

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim — Larry Niven

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 — Larry Niven

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

It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader. — Larry Niven

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

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

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. — Larry Niven

Stupidity is always a capital crime. — Larry Niven

Any damn fool can predict the past. — Larry Niven

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. — Larry Niven

I do not believe they've run out of surprises. — Larry Niven

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

Why hadn't they built a lot of little Ringworlds instead? — 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

Music had played suddenly through the cabin, complex and lovely, rich in minor tones, like the sad call of a sex-maddened computer. Nessus whistled. — Larry Niven

Fear is the brother of hate. — Larry Niven

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

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 — 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

The puppeteer unrolled completely. 'Did I hear you call me cute? — Larry Niven

Fear is the brother of hate. One — Larry Niven

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature. — Larry Niven

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

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

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

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built. — Larry Niven