Michael Crichton Quotes

But don’t you find it boring to wear only two colors?” “Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don’t want to waste it thinking about clothing,” Malcolm said. “I don’t want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.

~ Michael Crichton

Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

~ Michael Crichton

His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure.

~ Michael Crichton

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

~ Michael Crichton

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

~ Michael Crichton

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

~ Michael Crichton

In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the past isn't a location, you can't travel to it.

~ Michael Crichton

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

~ Michael Crichton

Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.

~ Michael Crichton

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'

~ Michael Crichton

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

~ Michael Crichton

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

~ Michael Crichton