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
Id repair our education system or replace it with something that works. – Larry Niven
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. – Larry Niven
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. – Larry Niven
Mind you, Ive always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise. – Julie Burchill
Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didnt have them anywhere else. – Paul Farmer