140 Quotes by Larry Niven

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

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.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

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

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.