Larry Niven idézetek
Larry Niven: Idézetek angolul
“The morning was blacker than the inside of a smoker’s lungs.”
Becalmed in Hell (p. 16)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)
Forrás: A Gift From Earth (1968), Ch. 1 : The Ramrobot
There Is a Tide (p. 206)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)
“Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”
Anonymous saying, this is an inversion of the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It has been attributed to Niven, and even called "Niven's Law" by some, and to Terry Pratchett by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case, and the earliest occurrence yet located is in Keystone Folklore (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society.
Misattributed
Flash Crowd, section 7, in Three Trips in Time and Space (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg, p. 65
“Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.”
Forrás: Ringworld (1970), p. 165
Cloak of Anarchy (p. 124)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)
“What’s intelligence for if not for seeking knowledge?”
Forrás: Destiny's Road (1997), Chapter 30, “Hydraulic * Empire” (p. 299)
Forrás: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 5 Stealing Youth, Section 3 (p. 126)
“He felt good. At worst he had found a brand-new way to die.”
Forrás: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 54)
“You’re insane. Imagine my amazement.”
Forrás: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 3 (p. 52)
“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)
“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)
A Kind of Murder (p. 66)
Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974)
“Do you like strange places and faraway people—or vice versa?”
“Both.”
Rammer (p. 4)
Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974)
“Any time seems long when you need to make a decision but can’t.”
Grendel (p. 252)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)
“Just take my word for it, will you? Assume I’m a genius.”
Grendel (p. 248)
Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968)
“And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges.”
Section 2, Vandervecken (p. 166)
Protector (1973)
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.
Foreword: Playgrounds for the Mind (pp. 26-27)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)
Tom Clancy, Introduction: The Maker of Worlds (p. 1)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)
Forrás: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 59)
Forrás: A Gift From Earth (1968), Chapter 12, "The Slowboat" (p. 210)
Forrás: A Gift From Earth (1968), Chapter 10, "Parlette's Hand" (p. 174)
“With all its horrors and all its failures, life was bearable where there were hot showers.”
Forrás: A Gift From Earth (1968), Chapter 3, "The Car" (p. 53)
“A species that can't develop spaceflight is no better than animals.”
Forrás: Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974), The Fourth Profession (p. 167)