Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!
Michael CrichtonThe academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
Michael CrichtonTags: linguistics
Geniuses never pay attention.
Michael CrichtonTags: psychology
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.
Michael CrichtonTags: culture
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
Michael CrichtonTags: maturity
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.
Michael CrichtonTags: advice
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.
Michael CrichtonTags: evolution
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
Michael CrichtonTags: pride
Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.
Michael CrichtonTags: meaning-of-life evolution purpose-of-life
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.
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