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“There is never no hope left. Remember.”

Larry Niven book The Ringworld Engineers

Source: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 280

“Everything starts as somebody's daydream.”

Larry Niven

As quoted in Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes : Wit and Wisdom for All Occasions from America's Most Popular Magazine (1997) by Reader's Digest Association, p. 27

“Think of it as evolution in action.”

Larry Niven book Oath of Fealty

Oath of Fealty (1982) (co-written with Jerry Pournelle)

“The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.”

Larry Niven

Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 142

“Cheap superconductors imply maglev trains everywhere. Computers could get big again, with RAM/ROM rising by powers of forty and fifty, if superconductors shed the heat.
Laser handguns against superconducting armor. I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.”

Larry Niven

Space.com interview (2000)

““Perhaps I was expecting too much.”
“Perhaps. We’re all waiting as fast as we can.””

Larry Niven book The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 13 “Look Around You” (p. 107)

“He liked everything about the university except the students.”

Larry Niven book The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 19 “Channel Two’s Popularity” (p. 162)

“Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.”

Larry Niven book The Ringworld Throne

The Ringworld Throne (1996)

“I knew it long ago: I'm a compulsive teacher, but I can't teach. The godawful state of today's education system isn't what's stopping me. I lack at least two of the essential qualifications.
I cannot "suffer fools gladly." The smartest of my pupils would get all my attention, and the rest would have to fend for themselves. And I can't handle being interrupted.
Writing is the answer. Whatever I have to teach, my students will select themselves by buying the book. And nobody interrupts a printed page.”

Larry Niven book N-Space

Foreword: Playgrounds for the mind
N-Space (1989)

““That’s impossible. Isn’t it? Carlos?”
Carlos’ mouth twisted. “Not if it’s being done.””

Larry Niven book The Borderland of Sol

The Borderland of Sol (p. 160)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.”

Larry Niven

Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 9

“It had been a long dull evening, with only the thought of leaving the party early to look forward to.”

Larry Niven book The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 51 “After the Ball Is Over” (p. 491)

“Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.”

Larry Niven book The Ringworld Engineers

Source: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 68

“To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.”

Larry Niven

Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 133

“Fear is the brother of hate.”

Larry Niven

Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 72

“We've fallen way behind. Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.”

Larry Niven

Space.com interview (2000)

“Anyone who says human nature can’t be changed is out of his head. To make it stick, he’s got to define human nature—and he can’t.”

Larry Niven

The Warriors (p. 142)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.”

Larry Niven book The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 40 “Farewell” (p. 397)

“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

Matt to Polly in Ch. 12 : The Slowboat
A Gift From Earth (1968)

“She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.”

Larry Niven book The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 51 “After the Ball Is Over” (p. 486)