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If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.

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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The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
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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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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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In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.
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In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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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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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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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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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
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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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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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