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
On bad days, I think Id like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, Yeah, right, Im going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school. No. No. – Tama Janowitz