140 Quotes by Larry Niven

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

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.

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.

I’d repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

I’m not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

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.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money’s in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

Anything you don’t understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

I don’t have a strong interest in history.