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Laurence van Cott Niven ist ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller, insbesondere der Romanzyklen der Kzin-Kriege und Ringwelt. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. April 1938
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“There is never no hope left. Remember.”

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Larry Niven buch The Ringworld Engineers

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

“Everything starts as somebody's daydream.”

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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.”

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Larry Niven buch 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.”

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Quelle: 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.”

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Space.com interview (2000)

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

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Larry Niven buch The Mote in God's Eye

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

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

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Larry Niven buch The Mote in God's Eye

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

“Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.”

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Larry Niven buch 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.”

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Larry Niven buch 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.””

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Larry Niven buch The Borderland of Sol

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

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

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Larry Niven buch The Mote in God's Eye

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

“Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.”

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Larry Niven buch The Ringworld Engineers

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

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

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Quelle: Ringworld (1970), p. 133

“Fear is the brother of hate.”

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Quelle: 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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Larry Niven buch The Mote in God's Eye

Quelle: 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.”

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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.”

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Larry Niven buch The Mote in God's Eye

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

“Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.”

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Larry Niven buch The Ringworld Engineers

Quelle: The Ringworld Engineers (1980), p. 282

“Putting a monkey wrench in machinery is often the only way to force somebody to repair, replace, or redesign the machinery. Especially legal or social machinery.”

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Larry Niven buch World of Ptavvs

Quelle: World of Ptavvs (1966), p. 97

“In a universe the size of ours almost anything that can happen, will.”

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There Is a Tide (p. 201)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.”

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Describing the sound inside a spacecraft propelled by nuclear explosions, in Footfall (1986)

“Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.”

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Larry Niven buch The Mote in God's Eye

Quelle: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 53 “The Djinn” (p. 516; spoken by a politician to a scientist)

“The majority is always sane.”

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Quelle: Ringworld (1970), p. 177

“"You look like a girl with a secret," Matt said. "I think it must be the smile."
She moved closer to him, which was very close, and lowered her voice. "Can you keep a secret?"
Matt smiled with one side of his mouth to show that he knew what was coming. She said it anyway. "So can I."”

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Quelle: 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.”

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The Warriors (p. 151)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

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