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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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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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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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The majority is always sane.
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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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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.
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In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
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There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads and the fuggheads will get all the press.
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How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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A civilization has the ethics it can afford
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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 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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I'm not predicting I just love playing with superconductors.
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Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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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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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
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Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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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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