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Michael Crichton
American
Author
Born:
Oct 23
,
1942
Died:
Nov 4
,
2008
Actually
Any
Down
Pay
Think
Will
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Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.
Michael Crichton
Become
Think
Too
Our
Members
Find
Uncomfortable
Never
Part
Simply
Most
Repeat
Any
Human
Upset
Different
Human Beings
Themselves
View
Exposed
Beings
Different View
Species
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
Michael Crichton
Debate
Matter
First
Settled
Way
Claim
Claiming
Has-Been
Been
Historically
Scoundrels
Refuge
Avoid
Consensus
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
Michael Crichton
Funny
World
Too Much
Too
Am
Much
Certain
Certainty
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
Food
Fight
Animal
Result
Animals
Awareness
Other
Characteristic
Religious
Kingdom
Territory
Trait
Human
Human Beings
Conformity
Warfare
Beings
Uniquely
Beliefs
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
Michael Crichton
You
Other
Something
Had
Reach
Because
Scientists
Hear
Wallet
Whenever
Being
Your
Agree
Consensus
Instead of writing thrillers to pay for my train bills, I was actually now going to medical school in order to have something to write about.
Michael Crichton
Writing
School
Pay
About
Something
Thrillers
Write
Instead
Train
Going
Order
Bills
Now
Medical
Actually
Medical School
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
Michael Crichton
Other
Our
Stubborn
Delusion
Self-Destructive
Any
Just
View
Species
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
Michael Crichton
Thought
Society
Paper
Nobody
Expect
Banish
Information
Actually
Thinks
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
Michael Crichton
Accident
Saw
Drawing
Emergency
Faint
Surgery
Blood
While
Victims
Ward
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
Michael Crichton
Day
Every Day
Live
Every
Virtual
Our
Defined
Environments
Ideas
I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.
Michael Crichton
Service
News
Me
Tells
No-One
True
Knows
Nonetheless
Want
It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.
Michael Crichton
Easy
Through
Head
Human
Cut
In the postwar period, Americans turned away from quality as the principal goal of manufacturing and made cost the principal goal. Japanese, restructuring their companies, made exactly the opposite decision.
Michael Crichton
Quality
Decision
Made
Exactly
Cost
Postwar
Restructuring
Period
Principal
Opposite
Goal
American
Japanese
Turned
Manufacturing
Companies
Away
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