A Case of Need

by Michael Crichton

“Morality must keep up with technology, because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they’ll choose life every time.

We are all tied to the past, individually and collectively. The past shows through in the very structure of our

bones, the distribution of our hair, and the coloring of our skin, as well as the way we walk, stand, eat, dress—and think.

Many things in life are difficult to live down, but nothing is more difficult than a name.