American - Author | October 23, 1942 - November 4, 2008
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.
Michael Crichton
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It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.
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In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
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I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.
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One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.
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Unfortunately, our postwar policy has been to ask Japan to change so that our economic policies will dovetail. I think that is completely wrong. The solution is for America to change.
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It's not unreasonable to imagine that, at least as we're in a transition to a world economy, it's still necessary now to pay attention to how our country is doing economically in comparison with other countries.
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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.
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When I have political discussions with my friends, I piss them off because my personal position is that there's no difference between the parties. It's the Red Sox and the Mets.
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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.
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There is an idea of, you know, informing people about some emerging things. And part of that is just a reflection of my own interest, following different areas and saying, you know, look what they're doing now.
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I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.
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