140 Quotes by Larry Niven

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

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.

Ethics change with technology.

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

Fear is the brother of hate.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.

Never fire a laser at a mirror.