Larry Niven

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

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.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

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

I don't have a strong interest in history.

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

I love superconductors.

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.