Larry Niven idézetek
Larry Niven: Idézetek angolul
“There is never no hope left. Remember.”
Forrás: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 280
“Everything starts as somebody's daydream.”
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.”
Oath of Fealty (1982) (co-written with Jerry Pournelle)
“The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.”
Forrás: Ringworld (1970), p. 142
Space.com interview (2000)
““Perhaps I was expecting too much.”
“Perhaps. We’re all waiting as fast as we can.””
Forrás: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 13 “Look Around You” (p. 107)
“He liked everything about the university except the students.”
Forrás: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 19 “Channel Two’s Popularity” (p. 162)
“Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.”
The Ringworld Throne (1996)
““That’s impossible. Isn’t it? Carlos?”
Carlos’ mouth twisted. “Not if it’s being done.””
The Borderland of Sol (p. 160)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)
Forrás: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 51 “After the Ball Is Over” (p. 491)
“Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.”
Forrás: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 68
“To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.”
Forrás: Ringworld (1970), p. 133
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.”
Forrás: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 40 “Farewell” (p. 397)
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.”
Forrás: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 51 “After the Ball Is Over” (p. 486)
“Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.”
Forrás: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 282
“In a universe the size of ours almost anything that can happen, will.”
There Is a Tide (p. 201)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)
“God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.”
Describing the sound inside a spacecraft propelled by nuclear explosions, in Footfall (1986)
Forrás: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 53 “The Djinn” (p. 516; spoken by a politician to a scientist)
“1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.”
Niven's Laws, Niven's Laws For Writers
Forrás: A Gift From Earth (1968), Ch. 2 : The Sons Of Earth
“Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.”
The Warriors (p. 151)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)