Larry Niven Quotes

Just take my word for it, will you? Assume I’m a genius.

I didn’t want to find her. Not now. Our bargain had been clear, and also inevitable; and there are advantages to sleeping alone. I’ll think of them in a moment.

“Does it help you to know that you’ve ruined my day?”
“It does, yes.”

The moral of this story is, anything you don’t understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

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There is no turning away from knowledge.

Do you know what it’s like to be suddenly poor and not know how to live poor?

Part of being a coward is wanting security.

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.

Think of it as evolution in action.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers … What they really hate are lousy programmers.

Wanted fan for plain sedition, like the singing of this tune. If NASA hadn't failed us we'd have cities on the moon. If it weren't for fucking NASA we'd at least have walked on Mars. If I never can make orbit, then I'll never reach the stars.

Allen, it puzzles me that a man can shoot thirty-two full-grown men and women before the sheriff’s men gun him down. You’re more his time, maybe you can tell me. Why didn’t someone just shoot the son of a bitch?