I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

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.

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

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

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

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

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

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.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

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

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

I love superconductors.

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

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

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

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!

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

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.

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

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

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

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

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

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

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

Everything starts as somebodys daydream

Everything starts as somebodys daydream.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didnt have a space program.

Slippery smooth rhythmic motion absolute single minded purpose motion for the pleasure of motion itself. It was terrible it its beauty the flight of the horse.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.