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Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer. His best-known works are Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards, and, with Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye and Lucifer's Hammer . The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Wikipedia  

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

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Larry Niven livro The Ringworld Engineers

Fonte: 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 livro 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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Fonte: 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 livro The Mote in God's Eye

Fonte: 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 livro The Mote in God's Eye

Fonte: 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 livro 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 livro 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 livro 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 livro The Mote in God's Eye

Fonte: 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 livro The Ringworld Engineers

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

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

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Fonte: Ringworld (1970), p. 133

“Fear is the brother of hate.”

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Fonte: 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 livro The Mote in God's Eye

Fonte: 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 livro The Mote in God's Eye

Fonte: 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 livro The Ringworld Engineers

Fonte: 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 livro World of Ptavvs

Fonte: 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 livro The Mote in God's Eye

Fonte: 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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Fonte: 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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Fonte: 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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