Michael Crichton Quotes

Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

There are three musts that hold us back: "I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." And I sometimes think that as long as we keep the second must, which is socially learned, then some screwballs 100 years from now will manufacture atomic bombs in their bathtub and maybe annihilate the whole human race because they demand that the rest of the world must agree with their dogmas. When we don't agree, they may zap us.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.

Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me.

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it turns out to be not what they meant, other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

Cardinals are never off-base. They are often ill-advised.

We build a fire in a powder magazine, then double the fire department to put it out. We inflame wild beasts with the smell of blood, and then innocently wonder at the wave of brutal appetite that sweeps the land as a consequence.

Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.