Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichtonwas an American best-selling author, physician, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction and thriller genres. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted into films. In 1994, Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at No. 1 in US television, film, and book sales...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 October 1942
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
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.
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
Welcome...to Jurassic Park!
Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.
Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.
Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.
This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.
Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.
They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.
All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.
He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.