“ The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! Larry Niven
“ The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. Larry Niven
“ I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius - one Earth orbit - around the sun. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work… Larry Niven
“ Each nugget of information was fascinating. The world was full of new-found marvels and he wanted to share the excitement with everybody. They all did. They had a certain sense. It wasn't a sense of e… Larry Niven
“ Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. Larry Niven
“ In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. Larry Niven
“ We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid. Larry Niven
“ The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. - Robert A. Heinlein Larry Niven
“ 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. Larry Niven
“ 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 Larry Niven
“ There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every… Larry Niven
“ 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. Larry Niven
“ Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand; The Trojan Hearse; A Deadly Shade of Gold; Conjure Wife; Rosemary… Larry Niven
“ 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. Larry Niven
