The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. Michael Crichton More Quotes by Michael Crichton More Quotes From Michael Crichton If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined. Michael Crichton ruinedenoughlong 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 confusingcreativetrouble 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. Michael Crichton technologyalivechoices Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties. Michael Crichton smarttwentieswant Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves. Michael Crichton jurassic-parkplanetsmight All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there. Michael Crichton major-changemajorssides This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't. Michael Crichton novelfiction At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job. Michael Crichton youngwritingjobs 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 richwealthpeople 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 true-powerour-worldprofound She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist. Michael Crichton labsorderlong Only assholes put a nickname on their business card. Michael Crichton business-cardnicknamescards In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought. Michael Crichton decisionliteraturethinking Welcome...to Jurassic Park! Michael Crichton jurassic-parkwelcomeparks The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid. Michael Crichton hollywoodstupidpeople They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens. Michael Crichton heardhappenssaid There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind. Michael Crichton bodykindenergy Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always. Michael Crichton naturaldiscoveryworld We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. Michael Crichton knowsthinking Friendships are nice. So is competence. Michael Crichton competencenice
