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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

  Writing, Dinner, Enough Time

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• As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.

  Michael Crichton

  Ordinary, Exotic, Consciousness

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• If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

  Michael Crichton

  Long, Enough, Ruined

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

  Michael Crichton

  Fiction, Novel

  Michael Crichton (2009). “Next”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Government, Views

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

  Michael Crichton

  Jobs, Writing, Young

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Origin Of Life, Other Worlds

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• There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

  Michael Crichton

  Fear, May, Causes

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• In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

  Michael Crichton

  Wise, Science, Men

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• 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

  Order, Long, Labs

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• Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.

  Michael Crichton

  Government, Police, Bankers

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• Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

  Michael Crichton

  Hypothesis

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• In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse, and he fell attempting to dismount. Now the horse kicked him in the head, and I feared for his safety, but Ecthgow laughed and kicked the horse back.

  Michael Crichton

  Strength, Horse, Warrior

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Eaters of the Dead”, p.56, Vintage

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• Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

  Michael Crichton

  Years, Growth, United States

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• Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes - the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past.

  Michael Crichton

  Taken, Believe, Past

  Michael Crichton (2007). “Next”, HarperCollins UK

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• Friendships are nice. So is competence.

  Michael Crichton

  Nice, Competence

  Michael Crichton (1996). “Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels”, Wings

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• Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

  Michael Crichton

  Cancer, Disease, Symptoms

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.115, Vintage

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• The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

  Michael Crichton

  World, Jargon, Academic

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.

  Michael Crichton

  World, Feels, Regions

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.10, Vintage

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• 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.

  Michael Crichton

  Self, May, Three

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

  Michael Crichton

  Smart, Twenties, Want

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

  Michael Crichton

  Computer, Written, Ifs

  Michael Crichton (1983). “Electronic Life: How to Think about Computers”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

  Michael Crichton

  Evolution, Behavior, Species

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.

  Michael Crichton

  Life, Reality, Knows

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, 1988.

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• 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

  Creative, Confusing, Trouble

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.194, Vintage

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