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Larry Niven
Profession : Writer
Birth : April 30, 1938
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
Larry Niven
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
Larry Niven
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
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
Larry Niven
Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
Larry Niven
I love superconductors.
Larry Niven
I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
Larry Niven
We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
Larry Niven
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
Larry Niven
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
Larry Niven
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven
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!
Larry Niven
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
Larry Niven
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
Larry Niven
I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
Larry Niven
I don't have a strong interest in history.
Larry Niven
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
Larry Niven
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