"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."

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

"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."

"I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too."

"So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened."

"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities."

"I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world."