Ben Aaronovitch
Quotes
He didn’t have “instincts”, he had thirty years of experience—which was much more reliable.
p. 31
Nothing beats a long wait at a bus stop as a reality check.
p. 162
I’m sorry, I couldn’t find “a good song” in your music. —Siri
p. 231
“Not your type?”
“I’m strictly a case by case kind of guy. But if I had a type it wouldn’t be him.”
p. 114
And what they don’t want you to know, you definitely want to know.
p. 138
“There’s no glamour in infrastructure,” he said as he filled our glasses again. “Steve and wee little William, right? They make stuff everyone uses every day but nobody thinks about the plumbing until it goes wrong.”
p. 160
Policing is about moving from the unknown to the known and then further—to the provable.
p. 261
“Are you smarter than me?”
“I’ll answer that when you give me a working definition of intelligence.”
p. 152
God, I thought, Mum’s going to be upset if the rapture arrives and Jesus looks like Robin Williams.
p. 162
“I’m interested in history,” I said. “Why don’t you tell me what happened.”
“Why would a young man like you be interested in history?”
“So I can avoid repeating it.”
p. 16
“Unless you believe it was a coincidence that Melvin the Rat turned up at a party we were hosting.”
Actually I thought it probably was, but I found that when people are nursing a grievance it’s a waste of time trying to explain the ubiquitous nature of coincidence in the universe. People always want things to happen for a reason.
p. 91
From a policing point of view, 3-D printers were your classic new technology. Everybody knew they were going to be used by criminals for something, but nobody was sure what.
p. 142
