The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
More Quotes by Larry Niven
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
I love superconductors.
We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.