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Imaginar que todo esto puede ocurrir por azar es como imaginar que un tornado puede arremeter contra un deposito de chatarra y formar con las piezas un Boeing 747 en perfecto estado.
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Michael Crichton |
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Asi comenzo todo: unos simios corrientes asomandose sobre la hierba.
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Michael Crichton |
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Montaigne said three hundred years ago, 'Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
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Michael Crichton |
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your final job will be to disband it, before it becomes another tired old environmental organization spouting outmoded wisdom, wasting resources, and doing more harm than good.
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Michael Crichton |
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In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.
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Michael Crichton |
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Endless presentation of conflict may interfere with genuine issue resolution.
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Michael Crichton |
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The exploitations he had found so profitable he now attacked with the money he had made from them. He
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Michael Crichton |
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It's not clear what happened. It's not clear who did what to whom. That's the largest category of complaints we see. So far, society's tended to focus on the problems of the victim, not the problems of the accused. But the accused has problems, too. A harassment claim is a weapon, Bob, and there are no good defenses against it. Anybody can use the weapon--and lots of good people have. It's going to continue for a while, I think." Garvin"
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Michael Crichton |
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We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. Those environments are changing.
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Michael Crichton |
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On the contrary: the advantage of a role-reversal story is that it may enable us to examine aspects concealed by traditional responses and conventional rhetoric.
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Michael Crichton |
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it is important to recognize that the behavior of the two antagonists mirrors each other, like a Rorschach inkblot. The value of a Rorschach test lies in what it tells us about ourselves. It
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Michael Crichton |
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So what you have," Kenner said, "is a history of ignorant, incompetent, and disastrously intrusive intervention, followed by attempts to repair the intervention, followed by attempts to repair the damage caused by the repairs, as"
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Michael Crichton |
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This disaster was caused by environmentalists charged with protecting the wilderness, who made one dreadful mistake after another--and, along the way, proved how little they understood the environment they intended to protect.
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Michael Crichton |
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The world is alive, Ted. Things are constantly in flux. Species are winning, losing, rising, falling, taking over, being pushed back. Merely setting aside wilderness doesn't freeze it in its present state, any
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Michael Crichton |
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Ted, have you ever stayed in a Third-World village? Even for one night?
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Michael Crichton |
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Well, frankly, if you must know, yes. I do know better. I have the benefit of education and broader experience. And I know firsthand the dangers of industrial society and how it is making the whole world sick. So, yes, I think I do know what is best for them. Certainly
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Michael Crichton |
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You don't seriously believe everybody on the planet should do whatever they want, do you? That would be terrible. These people need help and guidance.
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Michael Crichton |
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Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature." Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The"
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Michael Crichton |
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You got cell phones, you got computers, you got antibiotics, medicines, hospitals. And you say the old ways are better?
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Michael Crichton |
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, and human activity is the probable cause.
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Michael Crichton |
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The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don't.
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Michael Crichton |
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The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The
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Michael Crichton |
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The spider venom was Ebola in thirty seconds.
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Michael Crichton |
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The meaning of these discoveries has not yet been sorted out, but it is certainly now impossible to regard the prehistoric Europeans as savages idly
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Michael Crichton |
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The meaning of these discoveries has not yet been sorted out, but it is certainly now impossible to regard the prehistoric Europeans as savages idly awaiting the blessings of Eastern civilization.
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Michael Crichton |
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Well," Harry said, "look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space, and you came upon one of our communication satellites, in orbit around the Earth. You would think, What a strange, alien object this is, let's explore it. Suppose you opened it up and crawled inside. You would find it very interesting in there, with lots of huge things to puzzle over. But eventually you might climb into one of the fuel cell..
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misapprehension
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intelligence
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Michael Crichton |
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thrumming
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Michael Crichton |
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Diego
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Michael Crichton |
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My point is, there is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us. Before
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Michael Crichton |
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Sanders had fought the B-school mentality that she exemplified. After watching these graduates come and go, Sanders had finally concluded that there was a fundamental flaw in their education. They had been trained to believe that they were equipped to manage anything. But there was no such thing as general managerial skill and tools.
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Michael Crichton |
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There are many people, including myself, who are quite queasy about the consequences of this technology for the future. --K. Eric Drexler, 1992
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Michael Crichton |
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You know you can't expect to observe the animals without changing anything. It's a scientific impossibility." "Of course it is," Malcolm said. "That's the greatest single scientific discovery of the twentieth century. You can't study anything without changing it."
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Michael Crichton |
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The mosquitoes were a formidable enemy, coming in thick clouds so dense as to be almost palpable, obscuring each man's vision of those near him. The insects buzzed and whined around them, clinging to every part of their bodies, getting into ears and nose and mouth.
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Michael Crichton |
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And Kelly was beginning to see that Sarah didn't let anything stop her, she just went and did it. This whole attitude of not letting other people stop you, of believing that you could do what you wanted, was something she found herself imitating.
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Michael Crichton |
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Would you just check him? I'm pretty sure he's dead." "How do you know?" "He jumped from the twelfth floor. Would you just check him, make sure he's dead?"
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Michael Crichton |
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Michael Crichton |
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then they had pollo con ajillo, chicken with garlic, and a bottle of portuguese red wine. "my god, we're going to stink after this," angela said."
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Michael Crichton |
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The Five Deaths
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Michael Crichton |
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the waiter came, bringing the second course, pollo con ajillo, chicken with garlic. they would both stink frightfully when they were through, miss shaw thought; she would have to remember to buy some mints.
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Michael Crichton |
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don't be stubborn, mister. we haven't got all day." "you mean this is a part-time job?"
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Michael Crichton |
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the truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else.
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Michael Crichton |
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Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. --GEORGE ORWELL
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Michael Crichton |
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getting
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Michael Crichton |
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But as Alston Chase put it, "when the search for truth is confused with political"
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Michael Crichton |