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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

Larry Niven

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Larry Niven
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 30
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Mathematician
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Science Fiction Writer
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LA
California
Laurence van Cott Niven
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The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
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We learn only to ask more questions.
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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.
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Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.
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Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.
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Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.
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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. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
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In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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The majority is always sane.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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