In his view, a theory was nothing more than a substitute for experience put forth by someone who didn’t know what he was talking about.
But don’t you find it boring to wear only two colors?” “Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don’t want to waste it thinking about clothing,” Malcolm said. “I don’t want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.
Your business is not hardware. Your business is communications. Your business is access to information.
In evolutionary theory, this is called the Red Queen phenomenon,” Malcolm said. “Because in Alice in Wonderland the Red Queen tells Alice she has to run as fast as she can just to stay where she is. That’s the way evolutionary spirals seem. All the organisms are evolving at a furious pace just to stay in the same balance. To stay where they are.
Heisenberg uncertainty principle: that whatever you studied you also changed. In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be a mere observer.
They can only live here in Jurassic Park. They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
The episode related here is based on a true story.
Nature was not gentle or nice. There was no such thing as mercy in the natural world. You don’t get any points for trying. You either survive or you don’t.
You have to realize, all these decisions are about power. Sexual harassment is about power, and so is the company’s resistance to dealing with it.
Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them.
Multi-XMP? You mean more than one Cray?
Thirty thousand years ago; when men were doing cave paintings at Lascaux, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could play, or sleep, or do whatever they wanted. And they lived in a natural world, with clean air, clean water, beautiful trees and sunsets. Think about it. Twenty hours a week.
Attractions so astonishing they would capture the imagination of the entire world.
In New Guinea, they had a disease called kuru, transmitted by eating the brains of their enemies.” “That’s not true.” “Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize for it. They were eating brains, all right.
But as a professor who was popular with his students – and who advocated general education – Thorne found himself swimming against the tide. The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
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.
The computer system is secure.
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?
Everything on that island is perfectly fine.
Ian Malcolm, how do you do? I do maths.” He.