Top 78 Quotes & Sayings by Larry Niven - Page 2

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Larry Niven.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Never tell a computer to forget it.

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.

Larry Niven

I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.

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

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

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Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

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Stupidity is always a capital crime.

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Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

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The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

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The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

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If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.

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Anything that can go wrong, will

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Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag and seal it. Another. The packages piled up on the floor, each a book sealed in four plastic envelopes.

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Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

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It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

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

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