Red Tide Quotes

“Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn’t want that catching on.) There”
― Larry Niven, Red Tide

“That’s the only part that bugs me about this. It’s so empty out there.” “True. On the other hand, if the Sun blows up we’ll be in an unrivaled position to say, ‘What was that?’” “Oh,”
― Larry Niven, Red Tide

“What’s the economic setup?” Sam said.
“Radical,” said Theodore with great gravity. “Arbitrary tokens of symbolic value are awarded to you, based on the benefit you've provided to everyone else in the world put together, in their collective opinion of its value. It’s called money.”
Sam blinked, snorted, and was starting to laugh when another newcomer came forward and said, “That’s not how money actually works.”
“It’s not how it’s treated,” Theodore said over his shoulder, “but it is precisely what it actually is.”
The man behind him smiled smugly and said, “I’m an economist.”
He was going to say more, but Theodore had turned and knocked him out.”
― Larry Niven, Red Tide

“Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn’t want that catching on.)”
― Larry Niven, Red Tide

“And they never promoted anybody who could do the math, because anyone who could do enough math to understand physical limits would be opposed to socialism in the first place.”
― Larry Niven, Red Tide