Larry Niven
  • I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  • 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.