The Goliath Stone Quotes

“Some amiably deranged science-fiction writer had come up with it forty years back and, like so many of his kind, given it away for free - or anyway at fifty cents a word.”
― Larry Niven, The Goliath Stone

“...sometimes the only way to call attention to bad construction was to set fire to the building.”
― Larry Niven, The Goliath Stone

“I see war as that insane enterprise wherein men dig up the riches of the earth and hurl them at one another. —ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH DANIEL HARRINGTON”
― Larry Niven, The Goliath Stone

“didn’t have the reflexes of some of the candidates who were passed over.”
― Larry Niven, The Goliath Stone

“cats know what causes pregnancy!”
― Larry Niven, The Goliath Stone

“You might find it helpful to read the works of Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson. The hallmark of a truly great philosopher is that he never writes books on philosophy, and those two are the best. Anderson for how to get along with people who are conspicuously wrong, and Heinlein for when not to.”
― Larry Niven, The Goliath Stone