Nikki Ramirez

“Police officers who had just come from an emotionally fraught situation—a suicide, or a domestic abuse call in which a child was involved—were more likely to use excessive force.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

“If you had asked Ali, before he went to New Orleans, what he thought of people who didn’t help themselves, he would have said, “My parents had to start all over again. What’s the big deal? Just suck it up.” The sight of little kids post-Katrina jolted him. “It kind of blew my mind—if you are in kindergarten you should at least get a fair shot. It was just eye-opening: to see how much your geography could determine the opportunities available to you.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

“No one ever asked Friedberg the question: If my knowledge is no longer useful, who needs me? But it was a good question. “There is stuff the farmer picks up on that we haven’t got data on yet,” he said. “For example, are there bugs in the field? But over time”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

“that’ll go to zero. Everything will be observed. Everything will be predicted.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy