#dinosaur

One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible. ↗

— John Badham

#around #computer #conceive #could #day

In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#blooded #dinosaurs #hot #owen #richard

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#based #been #could #dinosaurs #few

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid. ↗

— Larry Niven

#becoming #chance #command #decent #dinosaur

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#dinosaurs #either #every #fascinated #i

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety. ↗

— John McEnroe

#book #dinosaur #even #example #for example

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#dinosaur #get #just #out #trying

I nurtured my dinomania with documentaries, delighted in the dino-themed B movies I brought home from the video store, and tore up my grandparents' backyard in my search of a perfect Triceratops nest. Never mind that the classic three-horned dinosaur never roamed central New Jersey, or that the few dinosaur fossils found in the state were mostly scraps of skeletons that had been washed out into the Cretaceous Atlantic. My fossil hunter's intuition told me there just had to be a dinosaur underneath the topsoil, and I kept excavating my pit. That is, until I got the hatchet out of my grandfather's toolshed and tried to cut down a sapling that was in my way. My parents bolted out of the house and put a stop to my excavation. Apparently, I hadn't filled out the proper permits before I started my dig. ↗

— Brian Switek

#dinosaur #excavation #hatchet #paleontologist #triceratops

They don't have intelligence. They have what I like to call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences. That's how you get an island like this. From thintelligent thinking. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#ian-malcom #science #intelligence

He was about as stupid as an animal could be and still live. ↗

— Roy Chapman Andrews

#intelligence #intelligence