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. Larry Niven More Quotes by Larry Niven More Quotes From Larry Niven Sometimes there's no point in giving up. Larry Niven giving-up sometimes giving The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive. Larry Niven constant giving-up looks I don't have a strong interest in history. Larry Niven interest strong Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems. Larry Niven comfort running love Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it. Larry Niven home night travel My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. Larry Niven six names years Never fire a laser at a mirror. Larry Niven lasers mirrors fire It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader. Larry Niven cardinals sin writing There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms on Earth were obviously the cereals and other grasses. They occupied all the most desirable and fertile land; and they had tamed insects and animals to care for them. In particular, they had domesticated the bipeds to nurture and cultivate them and to save and plant their seed. Now, watching the farmers, Alex could easily imagine that they were worshiping and genuflecting before their masters. Larry Niven space animal men I do not believe they've run out of surprises. Larry Niven surprise running believe We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built. Larry Niven political space should We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes. Larry Niven alaska mistake 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 technique moon want Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it. Larry Niven dangerous The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim Larry Niven maxims values I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works. Larry Niven education-system I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational. Larry Niven predicting rational people Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all. Larry Niven hopeless causes fighting As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. Larry Niven childhood disease two Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore! Larry Niven publicity long needs
