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Michael Crichton Quotes

Michael Crichton quotes

American Author, Writer, Regisseur October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008

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Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I’ve found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn’t enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I’m just screwing around. Michael Crichton
We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought. Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton quote: "At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself..."
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job. Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton quote: "The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to..."
The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed. Michael Crichton
The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society. Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton quote: "Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of..."
Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego. Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton quote: "A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time."
A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time. Michael Crichton
Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever. Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton quote: "The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will..."
The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us. Michael Crichton
God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth. Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton quote: "Sometimes women scare the hell out of me."
Sometimes women scare the hell out of me. Michael Crichton
we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal -- the only peripheral terminal -- for the new computer. ... And therefore the patient's biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become a terminal for the new computer. We have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal. The patient is a read-out device for the new computer, and is helpless... Michael Crichton
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense. Michael Crichton
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. Michael Crichton
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. Michael Crichton

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