Michael Crichton Quotes - Page 8

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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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• You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.

  Michael Crichton

  Answers, Gains, Knows

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.387, Vintage

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• Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, May, Measurement

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, Postscript, 1988.

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• Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel.

  Michael Crichton

  Rebel, Want, Feels

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

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• They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Literature, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

  Michael Crichton

  Hypothesis

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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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• 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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• 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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• Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date.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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• Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

  Michael Crichton

  Technology, Reality, Ordinary

  "Crichton goes out of time to send off old millennium" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. November 10, 1999.

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• Power is neither male or female.

  Michael Crichton

  Males, Female

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• Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

  Michael Crichton

  Beer, Ice, Drunk

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”

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• Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is why you think that to build a place like this is simple. Hammond: It was simple. Malcolm: Then why did it go wrong?

  Michael Crichton

  Simple, Night, Thinking

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• They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

  Michael Crichton

  Said, Heard, Happens

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

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• I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Should Have, Editors

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• I hadn't traveled with the intention of learning about anything except myself. And the real point of all this travel was not what I had come to believe or disbelieve about the wider world, but what I had learned about myself.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Believe, World

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.503, Vintage

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• I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source of information and could know things about people we didn't think were possible to know.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, People, Training

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.291, Vintage

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• In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

  Michael Crichton

  Ideas, World, Modern

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?

  Michael Crichton

  Crazy, Careers, Doctors

  Michael Crichton's Speech at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Anaheim, California, www.abc.net.au. January 25, 1999.

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• One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, May, Measurement

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, 1988.

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• One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

  Michael Crichton

  Fate, Accepting, Uncertain

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• 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

  Writing, Machines, Use

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• No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

  Michael Crichton

  Men, Evil

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”

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• 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.

  Michael Crichton

  Book, Writing, Location

  "King of the techno-thriller" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.

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