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In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.
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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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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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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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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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
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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 the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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The majority is always sane.
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The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
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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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The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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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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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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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 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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