140 Quotes by Larry Niven

Sometimes there's no point in giving up.

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.

Anything that can go wrong, will

In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.

The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.

I have a kind of psychic invisibility. As long as I can stay scared, I can keep people from seeing me. That's what we have to count on.