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If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
Michael Crichton
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Michael Crichton
Age: 66 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: November 4
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Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.
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One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.
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Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
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They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.
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In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.
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The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.
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We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.
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I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
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At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore writing code is a young person’s job.
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Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.
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I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.
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They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.
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Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!
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If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.
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They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
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It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
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I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing. I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion?
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You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.
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Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.
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Power is neither male or female.
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