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Eventually we hope to drive among the animals - just as they do in African game parks - but, for now, sit back and enjoy the self-guided tour.
— Michael Crichton
Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.
— Michael Crichton
The minute we look, we cease being afraid.
— Michael Crichton
They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.
— Michael Crichton
Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results
— Michael Crichton
The spider venom was Ebola in thirty seconds.
— Michael Crichton
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
— Michael Crichton
The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.
— Michael Crichton
Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always.
— Michael Crichton
Too much change is as destructive as too little. Only at the edge of chaos can complex systems flourish.
— Michael Crichton
Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.
— Michael Crichton
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.
— Michael Crichton
The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.
— Michael Crichton
I do so think well of a man who dies with finesse.
— Michael Crichton
I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
— Michael Crichton
In the eyes of all of them was the hollow stare of fear, and there was hollowness in their merriment, too.
— Michael Crichton
It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.
— Michael Crichton
Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!
— Michael Crichton
refurbished warehouse district below London's
— Michael Crichton
Story of our species," Malcolm said, laughing. "Everybody knows it's coming, but not so soon.
— Michael Crichton
Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.
— Michael Crichton
We have been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we are gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
— Michael Crichton
It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
— Michael Crichton
Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s
— Michael Crichton
No one escapes from life alive.
— Michael Crichton
Take it easy, Norman. When the psychiatrist goes crazy, it's a bad sign.
— Michael Crichton
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job.
— Michael Crichton
If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.
— Michael Crichton
Understanding is a delaying tactic.
— Michael Crichton
Atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, and human activity is the probable cause.
— Michael Crichton
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
— Michael Crichton
No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.
— Michael Crichton
Social control is best managed through fear.
— Michael Crichton
Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.
— Michael Crichton
THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.
— Stephen King
All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception.
— Michael Crichton
ugly little things aren't the?
— Michael Crichton
You arrogant little snot (John Hammond)
— Michael Crichton
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
— Michael Crichton
Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.
— Michael Crichton
Life will find a way.
— Michael Crichton
Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.
— Michael Crichton
You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
— Michael Crichton
G.K. Chesterton said (in a somewhat different context), "If you believe in nothing, you'll believe in anything." That
— Michael Crichton
They didn't understand what they were doing.
I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. — Michael Crichton
I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. — Michael Crichton
Friendships are nice. So is competence.
— Michael Crichton
Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.
— Michael Crichton
They were seduced by their own technology.
— Michael Crichton
Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!
— Michael Crichton
Life is too short, and DNA too long.
— Michael Crichton
Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.
— Michael Crichton
To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.
— Michael Crichton
There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.
— Michael Crichton
In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.
— Michael Crichton
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.
— Michael Crichton
Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing,
— Michael Crichton
Do not think ahead, and be cheerful by knowing that no man lives forever.
— Michael Crichton
A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.
— Michael Crichton
Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
— Michael Crichton
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.
— Michael Crichton
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.
— Michael Crichton
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
— Michael Crichton
And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
— Michael Crichton
Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.
— Michael Crichton
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!
— Michael Crichton
fringe." He smiled. " 'All things
— Michael Crichton
And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly.
— Michael Crichton
If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose
the gambler is always ruined. — Michael Crichton
the gambler is always ruined. — Michael Crichton
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
— Michael Crichton
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
— Michael Crichton
You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.
— Michael Crichton
The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was.
— Michael Crichton
Obsession is just a variety of addiction ~ Ian Malcolm
— Michael Crichton
Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear.
— Michael Crichton
I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.
— Richard Donner
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.
— Michael Crichton
When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?
— Michael Crichton
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
— Michael Crichton
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.
— Michael Crichton
The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The
— Michael Crichton
There is a problem with that island. It is an accident waiting to happen.
— Michael Crichton
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
— Michael Crichton
Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.
— Michael Crichton
Geniuses never pay attention.
— Michael Crichton
For the door to the house had many bolts, locks, bars, and fasteners, as is common in the dwellings of misers.
— Michael Crichton
I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.
— Michael Crichton
But then, things never turn out the way you think they will.
— Michael Crichton
They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
— Michael Crichton
One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.
— Michael Crichton
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
— Michael Crichton
One reason abortion remained illegal was because it was so safe.
— Michael Crichton
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. ALBERT EINSTEIN
— Michael Crichton
You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.
— Michael Crichton
To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.
— Michael Crichton