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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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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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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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We learn only to ask more questions.
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Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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Stupidity is always a capital crime.
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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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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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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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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The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
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How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
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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 Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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The majority is always sane.
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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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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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