Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.

I'd 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.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.