SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
Larry Niven

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
Larry Niven

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
Larry Niven

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
Larry Niven

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
Larry Niven

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
Larry Niven