Michael Crichton Quotes
We think that computer models represent reality especially if we developed the models.
Michael Crichton, Techno Novelist, Speech, National Press Club, November 28, 2006
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Fifty years later there would literally be hundreds of millions of computers in the world each one of which computed more things about the affairs of people than all the computers in the entire world were capable of when Bush wrote this.
The Labor Department never would commit to a recommendation. The Job Corps leadership examined the insufficient data and made their best guess which for the most part turned out to be right as the Job Corps was the most effective youth job training program in the history of the country. It and Head Start were the only two of the anti-poverty programs that were still operational into the 21st century. Supreme Court Justice Learned Hand expressed the same idea more generally in {482001}.
John Michael Crichton was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres, and heavily feature technology. His novels often explore technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially resulting in catastrophes with biotechnology. Many of his novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and scientific background.
