Larry Niven

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Contents 1 Laurence van Cott Niven (b.1938) 2 Sourced 3 Attributed 4 External links

Laurence van Cott Niven (b.1938)

American Science fiction author

Sourced

• God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.
  • Footfall, describing the sound inside a spacecraft propelled by nuclear explosions.
• One mark of a good officer…[is] the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better
  • Ringworld
• Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.
  • Ringworld
• The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
  • Ringworld
• The majority is always sane.
  • Ringworld
• The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
  • Ringworld
• To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.
  • Ringworld
• That's the thing about people who think they hate computers... What they really hate are lousy programmers.
  • Oath of Fealty, with Jerry Pournelle
• Think of it as evolution in action
  • Oath of Fealty, with Jerry Pournelle

Attributed

• Do fuzzy black holes have any hair?

• Any damned fool can predict the past. And most do.

• Never throw shit at a man with a gun.
  • (Niven's Law #1)

• Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at a man with a gun.
  • (Niven's Law #2)

• If we can put a man on the Moon, why can't we put a man on the moon?

• Exercise is wonderful. I could sit all day watching it.

• The dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program.

• Now I'm having serious trouble believing that he died in a mugging. He didn't seem the type.
  • On the death of Superman

External links

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