All Larry Niven Quotes
- I do not believe they've run out of surprises. Believe
- We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built. Assumed
- We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes. Ahead
- 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… Close
- Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it. Dangerous
- The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times. Always Comes
- Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn. Half
- Fear is the brother of hate. Brother
- Treat your life like something to be sculpted. Funny
- I love superconductors. Funny
- I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors. Funny
- I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. Around Looking
- I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself. Among
- My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. Five
- The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. Cold
- 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… Any
- Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently. Always Chosen
- Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it.… Add
- In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. Capitalist
- The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve… Became
- The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. Capable
- There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision.… Billions
- Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun. Care
- The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive. Beginning
- Never fire a laser at a mirror. Fire