Zitat des Tages von Larry Niven:
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
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.
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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.
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
I don't have a strong interest in history.
Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
I love superconductors.
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.
We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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.
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.