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
No one escapes from life alive.
To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.
The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.
Friendships are nice. So is competence.
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
Geniuses never pay attention.
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.
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.