Michael Crichton Quotes
And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.
Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.
If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.
Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.
When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.
One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.
There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.
Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.
They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.
You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.
One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.
There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.
We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.
The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.
They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be a mere observer.
...we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.
These animals are genetically engineered to be unable to survive in the real world. They can only live here in Jurassic Park. They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it...
His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure.
