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
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
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. – Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832), Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Add