“I copied it.” “Sure you did, joker, but they drew what the… - Larry Niven

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“I copied it.”
“Sure you did, joker, but they drew what they thought you wanted and you copied what you thought you saw—”

Larry Niven

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Laurence van Cott Niven (born 30 April 1938) is an American science fiction author, most famous as the author of Ringworld (1970), his "Known Space" stories, and Niven's laws.

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