Michael Crichton

“They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.”

— Michael Crichton

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

— Michael Crichton

“Endless presentation of conflict may interfere with genuine issue resolution.”

— Michael Crichton

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

— Michael Crichton

“That dosent look dangerous it looks like a giant chiken.”

— Michael Crichton

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

— Michael Crichton

Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.

— Michael Crichton

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

— Michael Crichton

“The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The”

— Michael Crichton

“Montaigne said three hundred years ago, ‘Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.”

— Michael Crichton

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral…

— 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

“We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. Those environments are changing.”

— 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

“G.K. Chesterton said (in a somewhat different context), “If you believe in nothing, you’ll believe in anything.” That”

— 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

“My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. More and more human…

— Michael Crichton

“it was "the hardest damn thing I ever did in my life. I don't care how many feathers a man wears in…

— Michael Crichton

People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the…

— Michael Crichton

Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are…

— Michael Crichton

In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to…

— Michael Crichton

In the postwar period, Americans turned away from quality as the principal goal of manufacturing and made cost the principal goal. Japanese,…

— Michael Crichton

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to…

— Michael Crichton

In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon…

— Michael Crichton

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

— Michael Crichton

“This may be why Einstein once said; "Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above…

— Michael Crichton

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,…

— Michael Crichton

“The kids I see are lazy. Nobody wants to work. I teach physics. It takes years to master. But all the kids…

— Michael Crichton

“they'll reregulate within ten years. There'll be a string of crashes, and they'll do it. the free marketeers will scream, but the…

— Michael Crichton

“In the past, pure scientists took a snobbish view of business. They saw the pursuit of money as intellectually uninteresting, suited only…

— Michael Crichton

“Consider cotton prices," Malcolm said. "There are good records of cotton prices going back more than a hundred years. When you study…

— Michael Crichton

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was…

— Michael Crichton

“All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception.”

— Michael Crichton

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

— Michael Crichton

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

— Michael Crichton

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

— Michael Crichton

Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

— Michael Crichton

“I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.”

— Michael Crichton

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

— Michael Crichton

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

— Michael Crichton