Saturn's Race Quotes

“Suddenly he turned toward her. “Pardon me,” he said. “But do you have any Gray Poupon”
― Larry Niven, Saturn's Race

“Someone tried to kill me,” he said. He hesitated and then took her hand. “I know I can trust you.” “Really? I have better motive to murder you than most!”
― Larry Niven, Saturn's Race

“in Borneo and Brazil they kept cutting back on the feeding breaks … like nineteenth-century robber barons. Third Worlders just didn’t understand capitalism.”
― Larry Niven, Saturn's Race

“Comfort had made their men into women and their women into children.”
― Larry Niven, Saturn's Race

“Lenore chorded a few buttons, and her system went crypto. Any attempt to intercept the discrete information packets would destroy the message itself. Either nothing came across, or the message was intact. There was nothing in-between.”
― Larry Niven, Saturn's Race

“if you persuade people not to have too many children, what traits are you breeding for?” A heartbeat’s pause, then, “Unpersuadability! You’re selecting for parents who don’t understand your arguments, or can’t read them, or who understand the voice of reason but don’t give a damn, or who are too stupid to find the right end of a condom, or would rather watch cartoons or football!”
― Larry Niven, Saturn's Race

“Intelligence measured as a vector rather than a scalar quality, and as a hypercube, with a complex core model representing all of the data currently available on inter and intracultural communication, neurophysiology and culturally dominant representation systems.”
― Larry Niven, Saturn's Race

“It’s rare to find straight lines in nature”
― Larry Niven, Saturn's Race

“Considering the hefty tariffs we pay on our goods,”
― Larry Niven, Saturn's Race