Michael Crichton Quotes

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

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.

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.

You arrogant little snot (John Hammond)

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

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

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

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.