Richard Dooling Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Children, Money

  Tags in Care

• And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.

  Richard Dooling

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Care, End

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forget, Down, Look

• Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can’t help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

  Richard Dooling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right, Help, Ourselves

• Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, ‘toxic’ financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

  Richard Dooling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Over, Again, Talking

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Care, Right

• Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

  Richard Dooling

  Topics in Technology, Uncategorized

  Tags in Run, Ahead

Richard Dooling (7)

Birth:	1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Richard Patrick Dooling is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel White Man's Grave, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award for Fiction, and for co-producing and co-writing the 2004 ABC miniseries Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.

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