Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. -Larry Niven Space
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. -Larry Niven War
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 Government
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 Chance
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. -Larry Niven Medical