{"author":"Larry Niven","author_id":"Larry+Niven","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.","author":"Larry Niven","tags":["building","everyone","insane "],"id":5255,"author_id":"Larry+Niven"},{"text":"We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.","author":"Larry Niven","tags":["sea","government","wealth "],"id":77504,"author_id":"Larry+Niven"},{"text":"On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.","author":"Larry Niven","tags":["challenge","climbing","climbing-mountains","engineering","mountain","mountains"],"id":102300,"author_id":"Larry+Niven"},{"text":"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!","author":"Larry Niven","tags":["dinosaurs","extinction","insightful","space-exploration"],"id":125945,"author_id":"Larry+Niven"},{"text":"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.","author":"Larry Niven","tags":["future","language","moon "],"id":132891,"author_id":"Larry+Niven"},{"text":"The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.","author":"Larry Niven","tags":["science-fiction","social-commentary"],"id":142402,"author_id":"Larry+Niven"},{"text":"Ethics change with technology.","author":"Larry Niven","tags":["ethics","technology"],"id":165647,"author_id":"Larry+Niven"},{"text":"The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.","author":"Larry Niven","tags":["seventy","human","years "],"id":184086,"author_id":"Larry+Niven"},{"text":"Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.","author":"Larry Niven","tags":["esp","magic","psi"],"id":213859,"author_id":"Larry+Niven"},{"text":"The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim.","author":"Larry Niven","tags":["legal-maxim","no-remorse","pg295","survival","survivalism","trade","value"],"id":227553,"author_id":"Larry+Niven"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}