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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.


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.


In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.


I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.


I love superconductors.


I don't have a strong interest in history.


I do not believe they've run out of surprises.


Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.


As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.


We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.


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


Treat your life like something to be sculpted.


My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.


I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.


Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!


I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.


But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.


And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.


In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.


I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.