Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as … - Larry Niven

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In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my house; a woman made my food. A woman beat my ass when I wasn't a good kid. Women were behind a lot of what spurred South Africa toward democracy.

Larry Niven

Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

Home, Interstellar, Night, Space, Travel, Way

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The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.

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Ethics change with technology.

Change, Ethics, Technology

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

Hindsight, May, Running, Runs, Society, Starve

Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

Chosen, Goal, Tools, Used

There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door.

Child, Children, Choice, Choices Made, Men, Universe