Quotes About Michael Crichton

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?'

Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women.

But if planting deadly ferns at poolside was any indication, then it was clear that the designers of Jurassic Park had not been as careful as they should have been.

That dosent look dangerous it looks like a giant chiken.

The kids were probably with Grant. And if Grant was out in the park, well Ã¢â'¬Â¦ what better person to get them safely through Jurassic Park than a dinosaur expert?

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

Wu shrugged. "So? Just reset: shut the system down and you'll clear memory." "I've never done it before," Arnold said. "And I'm reluctant to do it. Maybe

It's marked as an object," Wu said. In computer terminology, an "object" was a block of code that could be moved around and used, the way you might move a chair in a room.

How many raptors are there?" she said. "I couldn't tell for sure, when I saw them. I thought nine." "I think there's more," Malcolm said. "I think eleven or twelve in all." "Twelve?" she said, glancing up at him. "On this little island?" "Yes.

drinking a Coke and laughing, waving the camera away. "That's the couple," Watanabe said. "Grace and Bobby

So what are you saying? We shouldn't care about the environment?" "No, of course not." "Then what?" Malcolm coughed, and stared into the distance. "Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Danish statistician, Bjorn Lomborg, who wrote a book called The Skeptical Environmentalist.

We call them the Five Deaths," he said. "Isla Muerte, Isla Matanceros, Isla Pena, Isla Tacano, and Isla Sorna

That's the problem. We're now dependent on Japan—and I believe America shouldn't be dependent on any nation.

But as Alston Chase put it, "when the search for truth is confused with political

Michael Crichton entitled PREY (2002). This fiction is a gripping read, in which one learns much about nanotechnology and

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.