Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (b.1938)

American Science fiction author

Sourced

• God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.
  • Footfall, describing the sound inside a spacecraft propelled by nuclear explosions .

Attributed

• Do fuzzy black holes have any hair?

• Any damned fool can predict the past. And most do.

• Never throw shit at a man with a gun.
  • (Niven's Law #1)

• Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at a man with a gun.
  • (Niven's Law #2)

• If we can put a man on the Moon, why can't we put a man on the moon?