Larry Niven Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.”

“I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.”

“In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.”

“My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.”

“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.”

“I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.”

“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.”