If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.
Michael CrichtonAll your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
Michael CrichtonThe greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.
Michael CrichtonReaders probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
Michael CrichtonCut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.
Michael CrichtonOne of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.
Michael Crichton