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1 " No one escapes from life alive. "
― Michael Crichton , Congo
2 " It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important. "
3 " The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct. "
4 " His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure. "
5 " Today we are surrounded by man and his creations. Man is inescapable, everywhere on the globe, and nature is a fantasy, a dream of the past, long gone. "
6 " (Among human beings, vocabulary was considered the best measure of intelligence.) "
7 " It’s hard to decide who’s truly brilliant; it’s easier to see who’s driven, which in the long run may be more important. "
8 " And when Arthur was twice asked to sort photographs of people and photographs of chimps, he sorted them correctly except that both times he put his own picture in the stack with the people. He obviously did not consider himself a chimpanzee, "
9 " Elliot was accused of being a “Nazi criminal” engaged in the “torture of dumb [sic] animals. "
