“The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”
Larry Niven has ideas the size of galaxies. Ideas of a size the mind trembles to comprehend.
“Long ago, Louis Wu had stood at the void edge of Mount Lookitthat. The Long Fall River, on that world, ends in the tallest waterfall in known space. Louis's eyes had followed it down as far as they could penetrate the void mist. The featureless white of the void itself had grasped at his mind, and Louis Wu, half hypnotized, had sworn to live forever. How else could he see all there was to see?"
“The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum”
Larry Niven has ideas the size of galaxies. Ideas of a size the mind trembles to comprehend.
“Long ago, Louis Wu had stood at the void edge of Mount Lookitthat. The Long Fall River, on that world, ends in the tallest waterfall in known space. Louis's eyes had followed it down as far as they could penetrate the void mist. The featureless white of the void itself had grasped at his mind, and Louis Wu, half hypnotized, had sworn to live forever. How else could he see all there was to see?"
“The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum”