15 ordspråk av Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton
 Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. |
| Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. |
| I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. [On why he gave up medicine] |
| If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree |
| In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought. |
| It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw. |
| Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. |
| Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast. |
| The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. |
| The Great Train Robbery. |
| The trauma wasn't just from the robbery. It was almost as bad having a lot of reporters chasing me day and night asking for details. ... These guys camped on my lawn for a few days and wouldn't leave me alone. |
| They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something. |
| They told me not to move and I did what they said. I didn't move an inch, not with that gun pointed at my head. |
| We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. |
| Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. |
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