Id 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
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. – Larry Niven
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. – Larry Niven
Id repair our education system or replace it with something that works. – Larry Niven
Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake…. During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast. – William Rathje, The Economist, 8 September 1990