Michael Palmer Quotes

United States, Author
October 9, 1942 – October, 30, 2013.

Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. , was an American physician and author. His novels are often referred to as medical thrillers. Some of his novels have made The New York Times Best Seller list and have been translated into 35 languages. One, Extreme Measures (1991), was adopted into a 1996 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gene Hackman.

Also known as Physician

Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.

Michael Palmer
In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

Michael Palmer

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

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You must have me confused with myself

Michael Palmer
- Myself
- Confused
When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

Michael Palmer
- Character
- Letters
- Type
Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

Michael Palmer
- Sometimes
- Figures
- Bottom