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Larry Niven
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Larry Niven
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: April 30
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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The majority is always sane.
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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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If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.
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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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I'm not predicting I just love playing with superconductors.
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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 Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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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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Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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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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The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
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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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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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