“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.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from The Andromeda Strain
“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.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from The Andromeda Strain
“In his blackest hours, Stone doubted the utility of all thought, and all intelligence. There were times he envied the laboratory rats he worked with; their brains were so simple. Certainly, they did not have the intelligence to destroy themselves; that was a peculiar invention of man.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from The Andromeda Strain
“Already, the brain consumed more than a quarter of the body's blood supply... an organ accounting for only a small percentage of body mass. If brains grew larger, and better, then perhaps they would consume more - perhaps so much that, like an infection, they would overrun their hosts and kill the bodies that transported them. Or perhaps, in their infinite cleverness, they would find a way to destroy themselves and each other. There were times when, as he [Stone] sat at State Department or Defense Department meetings, and looked around the table, he would see nothing more than a dozen gray, convoluted brains sitting on the table... Just brains, sitting around, trying to decide how to outwit other brains, at other conference tables.
Idiotic.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from The Andromeda Strain
“Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from The Andromeda Strain
“By the early 1960’s America had reluctantly come to realize that it possessed, as a nation, the most potent scientific complex in the history of the world. Eighty per cent of all scientific discoveries in the preceding three decades had been made by Americans. The United States had 75 per cent of the world’s computers, and 90 per cent of the world’s lasers. The United States had three and a half times as many scientists as the Soviet Union and spent three and a half times as much money on research; the U.S. had four times as many scientists as the European Economic Community and spent seven times as much on research.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from The Andromeda Strain
“He often argued that 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.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date October 23, 1942
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“Have you even thought that who you are now is exactly the person you’re supposed to be? That maybe with the slate wiped clean of bullshit outside influences that you are now more yourself than ever before?”
― T.M. Frazier, quote from King
“A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Double Identity
“تطلعت حولى بعيدا عن موقع انهيار البرجين فى جراوند زيرو توجهت ببصرى الى شوارع نيويورك البعيدة عن موقع الانفجار والتى عادت الان الى حياتها الطبيعية تساءلت عما ان كان الناس الذين يسيرون فى هذه الشوارع يفكرون فى كل هذا ليس فقط فى تدمير البرجين لكن ايضا فى مزارع الرمان التى دمرت وفى الاربعة وعشرين الفا الذين يموتون جوعا كل يوم تساءلت اذا كانوا قد فكروا فى هذه الامور يوما ما واذا كان بوسعهم ان يصرفوا تفكيرهم بعيدا عن وظائفهم وسياراتهم النهمة للوقود ومكافآت اعمالهم ولو لفترة تكفى لان يتدبروا ماذا سيتركون للعالم الذى يعيشون فيه ويورثونه لاطفالهم .تساءلت ما الذى يعرفونه عنافغانستان ليست افغانستان التى يرونها على شاشة التلفزيون بل افغانستان المغطاة بثكنات الجيش الامريكى ودباباته افغانستان الرجل العجوز .تساءلت عما كان يفكر فيه اولئك الاربعة وعشرين الفا الذين يموتون كل يوم ثم رايت نفسى مرة اخرى اجلس امام جهاز كمبيوتر بشاشة مظلمة”
― John Perkins, quote from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“We’ll never again be the boys we once were, Tomas. But we’ve become so much more than we dreamed.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“It was Tigerstar's ambition that destroyed him. If he had been willing to wait for power to come to him, he would've been the greatest leader in the forest.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Outcast
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