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Larry Niven
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 30
Author
Mathematician
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Science Fiction Writer
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LA
California
Laurence van Cott Niven
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Expensive
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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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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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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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A civilization has the ethics it can afford
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population in the next generation it's a quarter after that it's a childhood disease.
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Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
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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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Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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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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In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
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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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If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.
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The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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