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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. (Larry Niven)
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. View quote
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational. View quote
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. View quote
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And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up. View quote
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The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. View quote
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Do you like strange places and faraway people-or vice versa? View quote
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Do you play games of chance?” "Emphatically yes. The process of living is a game of chance. To avoid chance is insanity. View quote
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You look like a girl with a secret," Matt said. "I think it must be the smile." She moved closer to him, which was very close, and lowered her voice. "Can you keep a secret?" Matt smiled with one side of his mouth to show that he knew what was coming. She said it anyway. "So can I. View quote
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Perhaps I was expecting too much.” "Perhaps. We're all waiting as fast as we can. View quote
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Cheap superconductors imply maglev trains everywhere. Computers could get big again, with RAM/ROM rising by powers of forty and fifty, if superconductors shed the heat. Laser handguns against superconducting armor. I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors. (Larry Niven)
6) It is easier to destroy than create. Bin Laden tore down the World Trade Center? Let's see him build one. If human beings didn't have a strong preference for creation, nothing would get built, ever. View quote
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3) Stories to end all stories on a given topic, don't. View quote
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes. View quote
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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. View quote
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I do not believe they've run out of surprises. View quote
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If human beings didn't have a strong preference for creation, nothing would get built, ever. View quote
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As if he'd been afraid for hours. View quote
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If what you have to say is important and/or difficult to follow, use the simplest language possible. If the reader doesn't get it then, let it not be your fault. View quote
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Ad hominem argument saves time, but it's still a fallacy. View quote
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Millard Parlette was near exhaustion. ... Sometimes it seemed to him, that he was at the end of his life, that he'd waited just long enough to meet this - the crisis he'd foreseen a hundred years ago. ... Known rebels moved freely through the Hospital, and no one could touch them. Their attitude toward the police was rude and contemptuous. Rumor had it that Millard Parlette was drafting new laws to further restrict police power. It didn't help that the rumors were true. (Larry Niven)
In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature. View quote
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There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it. View quote
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He was sick of having to be afraid. View quote
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Giving up freedom for security has begun to look naive. View quote
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