Larry Niven

Everything starts as somebody's dream. ↗

— Larry Niven

#inspirational #quotes #dreams

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational. ↗

— Larry Niven

#good #got #i #millions #never

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #our #repair #replace #something

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

#decent #distant #enough #figure #future

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors. ↗

— Larry Niven

#just #love #playing #predicting

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them. ↗

— Larry Niven

#buy #five #got #i #kicking

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself. ↗

— Larry Niven

#brighter #i #life #lot #my life

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #inspiration #know #pop #up

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. ↗

— Larry Niven

#building #built #dozen #everyone #insane

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off. ↗

— Larry Niven

#because #cut #direction #embedded #field