#on

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

#been #bruce #doing #how #i

I don't have a strong interest in history. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #interest #strong

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'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

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. ↗

— George Orwell

#being human #does #essence #human #perfection

I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#attempt #came #closet #felt #i

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