“Turning into a tradition, isn’t it?”
“Around here, anything that happens twice is a tradition.”
Larry Niven Quotes
born 1938 United States
Laurence van Cott Niven (born 30 April 1938) is an American science fiction author, most famous as the author of Ringworld (1970), his "Known Space" stories, and Niven's laws.
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Also known as: Niven, Larry, A Gift from Earth
185 quotes
With all its horrors and all its failures, life was bearable where there were hot showers.
A Gift From Earth (1968)
“Can you take orders?”
“I was in the army.”
“What does that mean?”
“Means yes.”
A World Out of Time (1976)
“Do you believe in hunches?”
“No.”
“Neither do I. Except just this once.”
Neutron Star (1968)
“Does it help you to know that you’ve ruined my day?”
“It does, yes.”
Neutron Star (1968)
We don’t break rules, but we bend the hell out of them.
The California Voodoo Game (1992)
Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
The Ringworld Engineers (1980)
Was he deadpan because he didn’t care anymore? How much boredom can you meet in three hundred years?
Neutron Star (1968)
World of Ptavvs (1966)
The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
Ringworld (1970)
Peace isn’t a stable condition, not for us. Maybe not for anything that lives.
Tales of Known Space (1975)
Playgrounds of the Mind (1991)
World of Ptavvs (1966)
A Gift From Earth (1968)
N-Space (1990)
The Magic Goes Away (1976)
A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive.
Tales of Known Space (1975)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Larry Niven (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.