Larry Niven
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven—known as Larry Niven—is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld, which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 April 1938
CountryUnited States of America
Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
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...
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.
I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
Never tell a computer to forget it.