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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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The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery.
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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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You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.
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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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And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.
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Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.
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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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Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.
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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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Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results
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