Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.
Michael Crichton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Michael Crichton
Age: 66 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: November 4
Author
Basketball Player
Film Director
Film Producer
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician Writer
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Chicago
Illinois
John Michael Crichton
Michael Douglas
Jeffery Hudson
John Lange
Terms
Simplification
Position
Syndrome
Issues
Positions
Term
Ignore
Real
Require
Extreme
Crossfire
Extremes
Framing
Debate
Syndromes
More quotes by Michael Crichton
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.
Michael Crichton
Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel.
Michael Crichton
The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.
Michael Crichton
Scientific power is like inherited wealth attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.
Michael Crichton
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.
Michael Crichton
Power is neither male or female.
Michael Crichton
It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.
Michael Crichton
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
Michael Crichton
Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.
Michael Crichton
To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.
Michael Crichton
Welcome...to Jurassic Park!
Michael Crichton
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.
Michael Crichton
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.
Michael Crichton
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.
Michael Crichton
Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes - the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past.
Michael Crichton
If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.
Michael Crichton
When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.
Michael Crichton
To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.
Michael Crichton
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?
Michael Crichton
Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.
Michael Crichton
