Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don’t get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care. Richard Dooling Read Quote
I’m always working. I don’t really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I’m doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers. Richard Dooling Read Quote
I always wanted to be a writer… ‘Critical Care’ was my first published work. I was 34 when it came out. I was accumulating ‘Critical Care’ for years. I would go for a whole year and not touch it. And then I’d go back to it. Richard Dooling Read Quote
As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we’re most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us. Richard Dooling Read Quote
I don’t think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don’t want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people’s own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation. Richard Dooling Read Quote
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man’s land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I’m capitalizing like a German, but it doesn’t matter whether it’s faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it’s the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension. Richard Dooling Read Quote
We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers’ apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss. Richard Dooling Read Quote
We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us. Richard Dooling Read Quote
Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later. Richard Dooling Read Quote
Let’s take care of mothers and infants first, and then let’s see what’s left over for everybody over 50. I’m over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it’s spent on me. Richard Dooling Read Quote
