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Larry Niven

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Larry Niven
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 30
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Laurence van Cott Niven
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Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.
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Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
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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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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
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If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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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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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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A civilization has the ethics it can afford
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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.
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We learn only to ask more questions.
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I'm not predicting I just love playing with superconductors.
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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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In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
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The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
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