Larry Niven is a famous Writer from USA, he/she is 86 years old and still alive, born April 30, 1938.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 26 quotes who is written / told by Larry, under the main topic Technology.
26 Famous quotes by Larry Niven
"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen"
"I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors"
"I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad"
"But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form"
"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!"
"We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes"
"My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names"
"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"
"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"
"Everything starts as somebody's daydream"
"Anything beats an expensive stack of paper"
"We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built"
"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"
"In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up"
"I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works"
"And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up"
"I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them"
"In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists"
"I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself"
"I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational"
"I love superconductors"
"I don't have a strong interest in history"
"Treat your life like something to be sculpted"
"The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it"
"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"
