Author: Larry Niven

Quotes

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

- Larry Niven

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

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

- Larry Niven

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

- Larry Niven

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

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

- Larry Niven

I don't have a strong interest in history.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

- Larry Niven

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

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

- Larry Niven

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

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

- 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.

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

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

- Larry Niven

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