Larry Niven Quotes

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our ...

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

I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93...

Fear is the brother of hate.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct beca...

Each nugget of information was fascinating. The world was full of new-found marvels and he wanted to...

It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized.....

On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist....

Never tell a computer to forget it.

There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minu...

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

Never fire a laser at a mirror.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figur...

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War...

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen t...

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another ...

Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

Ethics change with technology.

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

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.