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Famous Larry Niven Quotes
“And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.”
“But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.”
“I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.”
“I don't have a strong interest in history.”
“I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.”
“I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.”
“I do not believe they've run out of surprises.”
“We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.”
“We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.”
“Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.”
“The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.”
“Treat your life like something to be sculpted.”
“I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.”
“I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.”
“I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.”
“My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.”